A medieval map that showed part of North America decades before Columbus may be real, one expert says. Cartographer Rene Larsen of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts told an international ...

WASHINGTON – The iconic sea serpents, mermaids and other mythical creatures found on world maps from medieval and Renaissance times splash to life on the pages of a new book. Chet Van Duzer's "Sea ...

A University of Cambridge research team has mapped murders that took place around the 14 th century to create interactive murder maps of three English cities. Using preserved coroner and inquest ...

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 that ...

From a small island in the Venetian lagoon, a 15th-Century monk somehow designed an astonishingly accurate planisphere of the world. On the second floor of the Library of Saint Mark in Venice, a map ...

Look at any map of Europe from the Middle Ages or the early modern era, before the Industrial Revolution, and you will be overwhelmed by its dizzying incoherence—all of those empires, kingdoms, ...

Medieval Oxford’s “lethally violent” student population made the city England’s “murder capital”, a new crime map has revealed. Oxford’s student population was by far “the most lethally violent” of ...

One of the classic images of a sea monster on a map: a giant sea-serpent attacks a ship off the coast of Norway on Olaus Magnus’s Carta marina of 1539, this image from the 1572 edition. WASHINGTON — ...

WASHINGTON — The iconic sea serpents, mermaids and other mythical creatures found on world maps from medieval and Renaissance times splash to life on the pages of a new book. Chet Van Duzer's "Sea ...