A backwards 1525 Bible map helped shape modern borders, influencing how we imagine territory, nations, and political space today.

The first printed Bible to include a map of the Holy Land appeared roughly 500 years ago, yet its vision of where sacred ...

Lucas Cranach the Elder’s map was initially printed the wrong way round – showing the Mediterranean to the East – but its inclusion in a Bible set a precedent which continues to shap ...

The idea of nations as neatly bordered spaces can be traced partly to medieval maps of biblical Israel. In A Nutshell ...