A Bible from 1525 with an incorrect map changed the way Europe imagined borders and territories for centuries.

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Lucas Cranach the Elder’s 1525 map is the first ever printed in a bible, but there’s just one problem: it was printed backwards. The document nonetheless stands as a transition point between the ...

Lucas Cranach the Elder’s map of the Holy Land in Christopher Froschauer’s Old Testament (Zürich, 1525) in The Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge. Credit: The Master and Fellows of Trinity ...

The rare Froschauer Old Testament survives in only a handful of copies worldwide, including one in Trinity College Cambridge's Wren Library. Maps of the Holy Land allowed readers to locate biblical ...

When the first printed Bible map appeared in 1525, it was supposed to clarify the ancient world of scripture. Instead, the printer accidentally flipped it—placing the Mediterranean Sea on the wrong ...

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Five hundred years ago, a Bible accidentally printed with a backwards map of the Holy Land sparked a revolution in how people imagined geography, borders, and even nationhood. Despite the blunder, the ...