Israel’s foreign affairs ministry (MFA) has created a regional diplomatic storm after it published a biblical map that many ...

Five centuries ago, a single misprinted image in a German Bible quietly rewired how Europeans pictured the world and their place in it. The 1525 map of the Holy Land, reversed like a mirror image, was ...

A Bible from 1525 with an incorrect map changed the way Europe imagined borders and territories for centuries.

A map of the biblical land of Israel published by the official Israel Arabic account on X earlier this week has drawn condemnation from neighboring Jordan, which accused the Israeli government of ...

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 ...

UNDER STRICT EMBARGO UNTIL 19:01 US ET ON FRIDAY 28TH NOVEMBER 2025 / 00:01 UK (GMT) ON SATURDAY 29TH NOVEMBER 2025 The first Bible to feature a map of the Holy Land was published 500 years ago in ...

15:17, Sun, Aug 30, 2020 Updated: 15:17, Sun, Aug 30, 2020 The Madaba Map, or the Madaba Mosaic Map, is a sixth century AD depiction of the Holy Land, believed to be among the oldest known portrayals ...

Dear Father Hansen I have stopped attending my Bible study because people there jump on everything I say. I feel attacked and unaccepted. I want to study the Bible, but I'm not up to having to defend ...

The first ever map in the Bible still influences how we think about borders today – despite being printed the wrong way round 500 years ago, a new study reveals. Nathan MacDonald, professor of ...