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 ...

We are at the bottom of a valley in the West Bank. On one side is the town of Shiloh, set up decades ago by Israelis on ...

The idea of nations as neatly bordered spaces can be traced partly to medieval maps of biblical Israel. In A Nutshell Medieval Christian maps showing the twelve tribes of Israel featured clear ...

The violence of brothers hating each other and even killing one another –which we are witnessing in Israel and Palestine in ...

Five centuries ago, a single misprinted image in a German Bible quietly rewired how Europeans pictured the world and their ...

The map of the Holy Land in Christopher Froschauer’s 1525 Old Testament has the Mediterranean to the east of Palestine instead of to the west.

A sneak peek at some of the fabulous family activities happening in Jerusalem this Hanukkah. Hanukkah is a magical time in ...

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 ...

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

After Trump calls Somalis 'garbage', social media has been flooded with memes joking that Minnesota is their ancestral ...

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

A Colorado State University student says he was spat on and assaulted while chalking Bible verses during campus protest ...