Five hundred years ago, a Bible accidentally printed with a backwards map of the Holy Land sparked a revolution in how people imagined geography, borders, and even nationhood. Despite the blunder, the ...

A single misdrawn page in a 500-year-old Bible quietly rewired how Europeans imagined the world, and its influence still ...

Coloring the world into tidy blocks with sharp edges feels natural today. Nations look solid on a classroom map.

The research argues that the map made and printed in Zurich by Lucas Cranach the Elder set a precedent that still influences ...

A new Cambridge study reveals how the first Bible ever printed with a map, released in 1525 with the Holy Land accidentally reversed, ended up transforming far more than biblical illustration. The ...

Religious maps from the 1300s showing tribal Israel inadvertently became the blueprint for how later mapmakers drew political borders.

The first Bible to feature a map of the Holy Land was published 500 years ago, in 1525. It still influences how we think ...

(RNS) — Dallas pastor and religious broadcaster Tony Evans, his wife, Lois, and some of their children visited the Holy Land in 2018, touring the sites believed to be those of Jesus’ birth, death and ...

A special Christmas “Bethlehem Bells” exhibit at the Museum of the Bible is bringing the Holy Land to Washington, D.C. The bronze bells that once graced the ancient Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem ...

Religious and political authorities as well as inhabitants’ testimonies offer instructive insights on difficult situation in the Land of Christ. The history of Christianity is all around the Holy Land ...

This week, veteran 60 Minutes producer Harry Radliffe threw Overtime a real plum: the story of Taybeh. He and correspondent Bob Simon stumbled on the tiny village of Taybeh while they were in the West ...

After 20 years, the ambitious biblical theme park is closed for good. The dream of a Bible theme park died in Florida last week, after 20 years of innovation and renovation—not to mention cash ...