WASHINGTON – The iconic sea serpents, mermaids and other mythical creatures found on world maps from medieval and Renaissance times splash to life on the pages of a new book. Chet Van Duzer's "Sea ...

Who is the richest person to ever have lived? Put down that Forbes Magazine — it's not Jeff Bezos. The real answer is in the pages of a Medieval manuscript, The Catalan Atlas. Centered on a page of ...

From a small island in the Venetian lagoon, a 15th-Century monk somehow designed an astonishingly accurate planisphere of the world. On the second floor of the Library of Saint Mark in Venice, a map ...

Medieval Oxford’s “lethally violent” student population made the city England’s “murder capital”, a new crime map has revealed. Oxford’s student population was by far “the most lethally violent” of ...

One of the classic images of a sea monster on a map: a giant sea-serpent attacks a ship off the coast of Norway on Olaus Magnus’s Carta marina of 1539, this image from the 1572 edition. WASHINGTON — ...

WASHINGTON — The iconic sea serpents, mermaids and other mythical creatures found on world maps from medieval and Renaissance times splash to life on the pages of a new book. Chet Van Duzer's "Sea ...