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500 year-old ‘Bible map’ reveals how maps reinvented faith and nations

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

A backwards Bible map that changed the world

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 ...

How the first Bible to include a map helped spread the idea of countries with borders

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

First 'Bible map' published 500 years ago still influences how we think about borders

The first ever map in the Bible revolutionised map-making despite being printed the wrong way round, a new study reveals.
BelTA

Street in Myanmar capital gets Belarus-linked name to honor Lukashenko’s visit

In honor of the official visit of Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko to Myanmar, a street in the city of Naypyidaw has ...
IEEE

Assessment of Local Climate Zone Products Via Simplified Classification Rule with 3D Building Maps

Abstract: This study assesses the performance of a global Local Climate Zone (LCZ) product [1]. We examined the built-type classes of LCZs in three major metropolitan areas within the U.S. A reference ...
Ancient Origins

Ancient Mesopotamian Map May Be World's First Urban Blueprint

According to National Geographic, the map depicts distances between gates in the wall surrounding the Mesopotamian city of Nippur, but for decades experts questioned its accuracy. The locations of ...