Hair the color of magazine you buy at a newsstand when you want to catch a train

  1.   mediumaevum: The Hereford Mappa Mundi is the largest intact Medieval wall map in the world and its ambition is breathtaking – to picture all of human knowledge in a single image. The work of a team of artists, the world it portrays is overflowing with life, featuring Classical and Biblical history, contemporary buildings and events, animals and plants from across the globe, and the infamous ‘monstrous races’ which were believed to inhabit the remotest corners of the Earth. 0 - At the center of the map: Jerusalem, above it: the crucifix. 1 - The Paradise, surrounded by a wall and a ring of fire. 2 - The Ganges and its delta. 3 - The fabulous Island of Taphana, sometimes (possibly mis-)interpreted as Sri Lanka or Sumatra. 4 - Rivers Indus and Tigris. 5 - The Caspian Sea, and the land of Gog and Magog 6 - Babylon and the Euphrat. 7 - The Persian Gulf. 8 - The Red Sea (painted in Red). 9 - Noah’s Ark. 10 - The Dead Sea, Sodom and Gomorrha, with River Jordan, coming from Sea of Galiliee; above: Lot’s wife. 11 - Egypt with the River Nile. 12 - River Nile [?], or possibly an allusion to the equatorial Ocean; far outside: a land of freaks, possibly the Antipodes. 13 - The Azov Sea with Rivers Don and Dnjepr; above: the Golden Fleece. 14 - Constantinoples; left of it the Danube’s delta. 15 - The Aegean Sea. 16 - Oversized delta of the Nile with Alexandria’s Lighthouse. 17 - A person skiing. 18 - Greece with Mt. Olymp, Athens and Corinth 19 - Misplaced Crete with Minotaur’s circular labyrinth. 20 - The Adriatic Sea; Italy with Rome, honored by a popular heptameter: Roma caput mundi tenet orbis frena rotundi [Rome, the head, holds the reins of the world]. 21 - Sicily, and Carthage, opposing Rome, right of it. 22 - Scotland. 23 - England. 24 - Ireland. 25 - The Baleares. 26 - The Strait of Gibraltar (the Pillars of Hercules).

    Full image link →

    mediumaevum:

    The Hereford Mappa Mundi is the largest intact Medieval wall map in the world and its ambition is breathtaking – to picture all of human knowledge in a single image. The work of a team of artists, the world it portrays is overflowing with life, featuring Classical and Biblical history, contemporary buildings and events, animals and plants from across the globe, and the infamous ‘monstrous races’ which were believed to inhabit the remotest corners of the Earth.

    • 0 - At the center of the map: Jerusalem, above it: the crucifix.
    • 1 - The Paradise, surrounded by a wall and a ring of fire.
    • 2 - The Ganges and its delta.
    • 3 - The fabulous Island of Taphana, sometimes (possibly mis-)interpreted as Sri Lanka or Sumatra.
    • 4 - Rivers Indus and Tigris.
    • 5 - The Caspian Sea, and the land of Gog and Magog
    • 6 - Babylon and the Euphrat.
    • 7 - The Persian Gulf.
    • 8 - The Red Sea (painted in Red).
    • 9 - Noah’s Ark.
    • 10 - The Dead Sea, Sodom and Gomorrha, with River Jordan, coming from Sea of Galiliee; above: Lot’s wife.
    • 11 - Egypt with the River Nile.
    • 12 - River Nile [?], or possibly an allusion to the equatorial Ocean; far outside: a land of freaks, possibly the Antipodes.
    • 13 - The Azov Sea with Rivers Don and Dnjepr; above: the Golden Fleece.
    • 14 - Constantinoples; left of it the Danube’s delta.
    • 15 - The Aegean Sea.
    • 16 - Oversized delta of the Nile with Alexandria’s Lighthouse.
    • 17 - A person skiing.
    • 18 - Greece with Mt. Olymp, Athens and Corinth
    • 19 - Misplaced Crete with Minotaur’s circular labyrinth.
    • 20 - The Adriatic Sea; Italy with Rome, honored by a popular heptameter: Roma caput mundi tenet orbis frena rotundi [Rome, the head, holds the reins of the world].
    • 21 - Sicily, and Carthage, opposing Rome, right of it.
    • 22 - Scotland.
    • 23 - England.
    • 24 - Ireland.
    • 25 - The Baleares.
    • 26 - The Strait of Gibraltar (the Pillars of Hercules).

    (via take1xtie1xday)

    Source: nerissaafonso.com

    1. vespervesper reblogged this from mediumaevum
    2. missspite reblogged this from mediumaevum
    3. nocompromise-noregrets reblogged this from awesomearchives and added:
      I’ve seen this…it really is breathtaking.
    4. ladykrampus reblogged this from mediumaevum
    5. hahaimsaldany reblogged this from mediumaevum
    6. ficcety reblogged this from mjolnirmaleficarum
    7. mjolnirmaleficarum reblogged this from mediumaevum
    8. fascinatingfrivolity reblogged this from cosmicrevolutionary and added:
      This is awesome.
    9. balbuzart reblogged this from mediumaevum
    10. wormwood-for-mushroom reblogged this from asiwaswalkingallalone
    11. fortunesfools reblogged this from cosmicrevolutionary
    12. cosmicrevolutionary reblogged this from profesormoriarty
    13. asiwaswalkingallalone reblogged this from mediumaevum
    14. profesormoriarty reblogged this from rudysnotes
    15. smallbodybigorgan reblogged this from mediumaevum
    16. isleepincloudsoffire reblogged this from mediumaevum
    17. rudysnotes reblogged this from mediumaevum
    18. agelaius reblogged this from mediumaevum
    19. senjukannon reblogged this from sassiavelli
    20. sassiavelli reblogged this from mediumaevum
    21. awesomearchives reblogged this from mediumaevum
    22. nthmetalscraps reblogged this from mediumaevum
    23. flashgorman reblogged this from pallas-athena
    24. dapper-raptor reblogged this from coeurdelhistoire
    25. pallas-athena reblogged this from mediumaevum
    26. shitforloving reblogged this from coeurdelhistoire
    27. daffenger reblogged this from mediumaevum
    28. coeurdelhistoire reblogged this from mediumaevum
    29. This was featured in #History
    30. giveitasqueeze reblogged this from arthistorycq
    31. contemplatingchicken reblogged this from workman
    32. live-at-teardrop reblogged this from workman