WASHINGTON – The iconic sea serpents, mermaids and other mythical creatures found on world maps from medieval and Renaissance times splash to life on the pages of a new book. Chet Van Duzer's "Sea ...

Medieval Oxford’s “lethally violent” student population made the city England’s “murder capital”, a new crime map has revealed. Oxford’s student population was by far “the most lethally violent” of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A map of Britain in the late 13th century. First launched in 2018, Cambridge’s Medieval Murder Maps plots crime scenes based on ...

A new map of Mars imagines how Medieval cartographers would have depicted the Red Planet had they the ability to travel there. The map is called "Here There Be Robots," a reference to the myth that ...

Who is the richest person to ever have lived? Put down that Forbes Magazine — it's not Jeff Bezos. The real answer is in the pages of a Medieval manuscript, The Catalan Atlas. Centered on a page of ...

A University of Cambridge research team has mapped murders that took place around the 14 th century to create interactive murder maps of three English cities. Using preserved coroner and inquest ...

Historians have long hoped to find a map to Atlantis, a mythical city believed to have been lost to the sea thousands of years ago. Now, a new study could prove that an Atlantis existed, though it ...

One of the classic images of a sea monster on a map: a giant sea-serpent attacks a ship off the coast of Norway on Olaus Magnus’s Carta marina of 1539, this image from the 1572 edition. WASHINGTON — ...

WASHINGTON — The iconic sea serpents, mermaids and other mythical creatures found on world maps from medieval and Renaissance times splash to life on the pages of a new book. Chet Van Duzer's "Sea ...