Discovered in a remote Ottoman town in 1884, the Madaba Map is both a masterpiece of Byzantine design and a working map of Jerusalem and the sixth-century Middle East.

Renaissance Europe’s fascination with the Middle East and the budding science of cartography is the subject of the Mitchell Gallery’s “Ancient Maps and Views of the Holy Land from the ...

Pope Francis's Holy Land tour is a journey through ancient, storied sites and heated modern disputes. ... MAPS: How the Pope’s Holy Land trip may stir controversy. May 23, 2014.