A major performance from Alun Armstrong goes so far as to ennoble "Mappa Mundi," a decent enough but hardly inspired piece that is invigorated no end by its leading man. Nearly two decades younger ...

From a small island in the Venetian lagoon, a 15th-Century monk somehow designed an astonishingly accurate planisphere of the world. On the second floor of the Library of Saint Mark in Venice, a map ...

Jerusalem is at the centre of the medieval Mappa Mundi The Mappa Mundi is due to go back on display in a new exhibition designed to make the ancient map easier to see. Canon Chris Pullin from Hereford ...

A couple from Worcester has re-created the famous Hereford Mappa Mundi for Dover Castle... A husband and wife team from Worcester has just completed a 12th century Mappa Mundi - or map of the world - ...

Created around 1300, it is the largest surviving map from the Middle Ages and offers a glimpse into the mindset of the ancient Christian world. Located near the Welsh border on the River Wye, ...

Hereford's Mappa Mundi contains more than 500 ink drawings including amazing 'evidence' for apparent locations of key biblical events A HISTORIC map which marks the supposed sites of religious events ...

The three foot by four foot map, handcrafted on calfskin, is the first serious modern attempt to make a medieval world map. It is based on the Sawley Map – the only surviving English 12th Century ...

WORCESTERSHIRE residents can get closer to the unique Mappa Mundi map at Hereford Cathedral than at any other time in its 700-year-old history. After a two year project, which involved consultations ...

Seven centuries ago, an artist made a perforation with a compass on a large piece of parchment. The pinprick formed the centre of his universe. Around it he drew the circular shape of a city, with ...

The National Theatre’s production of Mappa Mundi unfortunately lost its star Ian Holm the week before it was originally due to premiere. But now that it has finally opened (for a much curtailed run of ...