Renaissance Europe’s fascination with the Middle East and the budding science of cartography is the subject of the Mitchell Gallery’s “Ancient Maps and Views of the Holy Land from the ...

The Muriel and Jeremy Josse Collection of Holy Land Maps consists of 253 maps that date predominantly from 1870 to 1923. ... Medieval maps served primarily to illustrate religious or literary texts ...

Discovered in a remote Ottoman town in 1884, the Madaba Map is both a masterpiece of Byzantine design and a working map of Jerusalem and the sixth-century Middle East.

From a hanged man who came back to life to walk from Swansea to Hereford, to a woman who travelled from London to Evesham in a wheelbarrow, studying pilgrimage opens up a unique window on the ...

CNA Newsroom, Jul 17, 2024 / 14:05 pm. Researchers have unearthed a Crusader-era altar in Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulcher in a serendipitous discovery that sounds straight out of an ...