WATCH: See the world's greatest map up close (video by Anna Bressanin, images by Davide Pompejano and Morgan Maugeri/Pomona Pictures, edited by Davide Pompejano/Pomona Pictures) ...

The map also has some 2,000 pinholes grouped together to create outlines in the shape of pictorial town signs— likely created while tracing the Gough Map onto another map.

For years, theories swirled about a “lost medieval town” buried under a grassy field in southern Norway. The legend attracted the attention of archaeologists, but early radar scans repeatedly found ...

Medieval map of Oxford, England circa 12th or 13th century Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group/Getty Images Collectively, the project has cataloged 354 homicide crime scenes in 14th ...

Now, author Olivia Swarthout hopes to capture the beauty of such oddball images in her new book, Weird Medieval Guys: How to Live, Laugh, Love (and Die) in Dark Times, which pulls from maps ...

Medieval map of Oxford, England circa 12th or 13th century Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group/Getty Images Collectively, the project has cataloged 354 homicide crime scenes in 14th ...

On the second floor of the Library of Saint Mark in Venice, a map of the world occupies an entire room – and rightfully so, considering its historical significance and imposing size (2.4m x 2.4m ...