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The Holy Land in Antique Maps

No region has been mapped with more devotion than the Holy Land. For centuries, cartographers across Europe charted Canaan, Israel and Palestine — not only as geography but as sacred history, tracing the Exodus, the Twelve Tribes and the places of Scripture. Here is how the Holy Land was pictured, through restored antique maps.

The Dutch Golden Age

Seventeenth-century Amsterdam was the world capital of mapmaking. Jan Janssonius's 1662 map renders Canaan and the Twelve Tribes in sumptuous baroque engraving, while Daniel Stoopendaal's Canaan (1702) traces the biblical narrative across the land.

Classical precision and Victorian detail

The Enlightenment brought new rigour: d'Anville's Israel and Palestine (1794) mapped the region with scholarly accuracy. In the nineteenth century, Colton's hand-coloured 1854 map and Bacon's detailed 1890 map brought the Holy Land into Victorian homes.

Bring the Holy Land home

Every map is restored from a public-domain original and offered as a museum-quality giclée print, framed and delivered. Browse the full Holy Land collection →