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Mappa Mundi in La Fleur des Histoires, 1459-1463, showing at top Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat. To modern eyes, mappae mundi can look superficially primitive and inaccurate. However, mappae mundi were never meant to be used as navigational charts and they make no pretence of showing the relative areas of land and water.
The Babylonian Map of the World (also Imago Mundi or Mappa mundi) is a Babylonian clay tablet with a schematic world map and two inscriptions written in the Akkadian language. Dated to no earlier than the 9th century BC (with a late 8th or 7th century BC date being more likely), it includes a brief and partially lost textual description.
Ideal reconstruction of medieval world maps (from Meyers Konversationslexikon, 1895) A "T-O" map made with modern cartography The T and O map represents only half of the spherical Earth, [ 6 ] presumably a convenient projection of the known northern temperate region.
Aubrey Plaza’s husband, director Jeff Baena, has died. He was 47. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner confirmed his death and that he died by suicide at his home on Jan. 3, according to ...
This lemon-dill tuna salad packs plenty of protein and gets a boost of flavor from sumac—a spice used in Middle Eastern, Mediterranean and North African cooking that adds a citrusy touch ...
The rhumb-line construction scheme and geographic lines in the Cantino planisphere. Adapted from Gaspar (2012), Plate 3. The Cantino planisphere is the earliest extant example of the so-called latitude chart, which was developed following the introduction of astronomical navigation, during the second half of the fifteenth century.
Thairo Estrada and the Colorado Rockies finalized a one-year contract Thursday, a deal that includes a mutual option for 2026. Estrada has a .251 average with 48 homers, 195 RBIs and 52 stolen ...
The Hereford mappa mundi, a map of the world with Jerusalem at its centre. The Hereford Mappa Mundi (Latin: mappa mundi) is the largest medieval map still known to exist, depicting the known world. It is a religious rather than literal depiction, featuring heaven, hell and the path to salvation.