Was this copying mistake made by a medieval scribe or a 20 th -century forger trying to draw links between an authentic text and a forged map?

For over half a century, scholars have fought over the authenticity of the Vinland Map, which Yale University unveiled to the world in 1965 as evidence of Viking explorations in the western ...

Click to view the full map. In medieval times, the idea that flying, fire-spitting dragons existed was considered entirely plausible. The world was immense and unknown. Many people believed that a ...

Drawing on data catalogued in the city Coroners' Rolls, the map shows the approximate location of 142 homicide cases in late medieval London.

She re-created a medieval trail in Germany, drawing thousands of hikers Esther Zeiher launched the endeavor after she came across an old map.

Drawing on geological data and a medieval map, the researchers – from Swansea University and the University of Oxford – propose how two islands may have come into existence and then ...

A new map of Mars imagines how Medieval cartographers would have depicted the Red Planet had they the ability to travel there. The map is called "Here There Be Robots," a reference to the myth ...

Oxford was the murder capital of late-medieval England, with the city’s male university population being the main catalyst for violence, according to new research.

This is how Mars would have been depicted if Medieval cartographer had made the journey to the red planet. The hand drawn map was created by Eleanor Lutz, a Seattle-based science illustrator who ...

The 700-year-old drawing by Holy Roman Emperor Fredrick II in a Vatican manuscript, based on a bird he received as a gift for his collection of exotic birds, dates back to between 1241 and 1248.

Unesco said: "The map is pivotal in our understanding of medieval cartography and sense of place and still has relevance to all peoples in helping them to understand their sense of humanity and self." ...

A ground-breaking re-creation of lost 12th century map on silver disc merges will be on display at Abu Dhabi's Manarat Al Saadiyat, as part of the Hay Festival currently underway in the nation's ...