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Noah's Ark found on Vintage Maps

For thousands of years, cartographers have been mapping more than just the known world. Medieval and early modern maps often mixed observed geography with religious beliefs, folklore and mythical stories, placing legendary cities, lost kingdoms and biblical locations alongside real-world places. Mythical Tours  is a fascinating narrated journey through this imaginary geography, using centuries of historical maps to track down the locations of places that many people today believe exist only in legend. Among the mythical locations you can discover are the lost city of Atlantis , Hy-Brasil (the phantom island supposedly located off the west coast of Ireland), and even the legendary city of Merlin . The tour also ventures into biblical geography, exploring where historical cartographers believed they could locate the Garden of Eden and Noah's Ark . Despite the 'Maps Mania' credit on Mythical Tours, my involvement was limited to suggesting to TripGeo that mythical geography ...

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