A major performance from Alun Armstrong goes so far as to ennoble "Mappa Mundi," a decent enough but hardly inspired piece that is invigorated no end by its leading man. Nearly two decades younger ...

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 ...

A historic map that marks the supposed sites of religious events is still being decoded nearly 1,000 years after it was made. The Mappa Mundi, in Hereford Cathedral in England, contains more than 500 ...

A medieval map of the world that was believed to have been made miles away from the cathedral where it is on display may have been created closer to home. Hereford Cathedral said its 700-year-old ...