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 ...

When modern readers look at medieval maps, the instinct is to smile at the sea creatures and assume cartographers were just having a bit of fun. They weren't. Those monsters were a serious visual ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A map of Britain in the late 13th century. First launched in 2018, Cambridge’s Medieval Murder Maps plots crime scenes based on ...

A new map of Mars imagines how Medieval cartographers would have depicted the Red Planet had they the ability to travel there. The map is called "Here There Be Robots," a reference to the myth that ...

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 ...

A University of Cambridge research team has mapped murders that took place around the 14 th century to create interactive murder maps of three English cities. Using preserved coroner and inquest ...

For decades, researchers at Yale and elsewhere have questioned the authenticity of a map that seemed to reflect Viking travels to North America. The school now says the case is closed. By Alan Yuhas ...

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 ...