Accounts of the project describe how the Notorious Bible Map From 1525 Was Accidentally Backwards, It Changed the World Anyway, and how Lucas Cranach the Elder’s design, even in its mirrored form, ...

Lucas Cranach the Elder’s 1525 map is the first ever printed in a bible, but there’s just one problem: it was printed backwards. The document nonetheless stands as a transition point between the ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: One of civilization’s greatest tools, maps have defined human progress since the beginning of recorded history. From the Babylonian Map of the ...