The map is listed on Unesco’s Memory of the World Register and described as ‘the only complete example of a large medieval world map intended for public display’. In many ways, it serves as ...

The creator of the Hereford Mappa Mundi did not work to create an accurate geographical representation, as the creators of maps do today, but rather to glorify the Christian view of the world. As ...

The recently published Times History of the World in Maps features documents from ancient civilisations, ... This fine example of Christian cartography below is the Mappa Mundi at Hereford Cathedral.

Mappa Mundi means "world map" in Latin. Hereford's map shows Paradise, roughly where Japan would be, and the Garden of Eden. The map also shows more than 500 images from nature, ...

Hereford voted overwhelmingly for Leave. Maps and their ghosts remind us that our sense of the world, and our place within it, are contingent. The Mappa Mundi is the largest surviving medieval map. An ...

This treasure, which depicts the world as it was known around the year 1300 with philosophical – if not geographical – accuracy, hangs in Hereford Cathedral’s historic Chained Library, and has now ...