The British Isles are at the bottom left corner of the map, with Jerusalem roughly at the center, again showing the influence of religion on medieval mapmaking. As with many medieval maps, the top is east. Before the 1500s, there was no convention about puttingnorth at the top of maps,...
The eastern portion, however, lasted much longer and remained powerful for centuries, and was finally extinguished in 1453, at the close of the middle ages.Interactive MapsInteractive Map of Ancient Israel - Growing first century AD map.
This summit marks the highest elevation on the Pan-American Highway in Central America. Indeed, following the completion of the Christ the Redeemer Tunnel between Chile and Argentina (see below), it may well be the highest elevation along the entire route. The route through Central America termi...
after King David, the Lord Jesus Christ, the seed of Abraham, came to this earth and laid down his life so that all the nations of the world could be blessed. The people of God today are those who, by faith, conquer the enemy and inherit the promised land of the Kingdom of God. ...
A while ago I made a thread in the GTA6 section about whether or not the GTA6 map should be an island. Looking back to the series as a whole, GTA4 is actually the first game where the maps are islands, before that they just surrounded the voids with wate
Africa -- The Americas -- Asia -- Australia & the Pacific -- Europe -- The Middle East -- Russia and the Former Soviet Republics -- The United States Maps (HyperHistory) -- An interesting collection of world and regional interactive maps with contextual links. Nicely done. (Click Maps...
The cartographical personification of Europe as a regal figure is not only figurative: the woman whose golden gown extends across the region, hemmed along the Danube helped personifies the integrity of the new relation of the Habsburg court to Europe.
An Example On 11th August 1999 a solar eclipse occurred, starting east of the USA, moving across the Atlantic, Europe and the Middle East, finally finishing after passing across India. Astrologers are particularly interested in this eclipse because at the time of the eclipse a powerful fixed ...
the very site from which negotiations have been announced to start to withdraw American troops. It may have been sheer coincidence, but Bolton seemed to shift attention from a triangle in the Middle East where American troops had been long stationed and that had been a hide-out of Osama bin...
In the Middle Ages, the so-called “mappa mundi” often organized the world according to biblical time, with Christ looming over Jerusalem at their center. Cartography made a technological leap during World War I with the development of aerial photography. Then came radars and GPS, as maps ...