Click to view the full map. In medieval times, the idea that flying, fire-spitting dragons existed was considered entirely plausible. The world was immense and unknown. Many people believed that a sea ...

The Mappa Mundi is due to go back on display in a new exhibition designed to make the ancient map easier to see. Canon Chris Pullin from Hereford Cathedral said putting the Mappa Mundi in a better lit ...

A historic map that marks the supposed sites of religious events is still being decoded nearly 1,000 years after it was made. The Mappa Mundi, in Hereford Cathedral in England, contains more than 500 ...

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A medieval map of the world that was believed to have been made miles away from the cathedral where it is on display may have been created closer to home. Hereford Cathedral said its 700-year-old ...

In the 700 years since its creation, Hereford Cathedral’s Mappa Mundi has suffered many vicissitudes: hidden for a time under the cathedral floor, stashed in a Wiltshire coalmine during the Second ...

Drawn a single sheet of vellum, the Mappa Mundi reflects the medieval church with Jerusalem at the centre of the worldThe Hereford Mappa Mundi is an outstanding treasure of the medieval world ...