Medieval Christians drawing boundaries around ancient Israelite tribes on Holy Land maps had no idea they were influencing how later mapmakers would depict political power. Those red ink lines, meant ...

Medieval cartographers filled the edges of their maps with creatures that were never meant to be accurate, only terrifying. Sharks became winged devils, horned sea demons, and godlike beasts that ...

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