Diana Newall: Art Historian
Channel: British Library
Date: 2013-06-28

Discovering a lost 15th-century city 

Diana Newall used our amazing map collections to recreate the lost city of Candia, the 15th-century capital of Crete. Diana is an art historian and Associate Lecturer at the University of Kent, focusing on 15th-century travel and Mediterranean studies, and she has published several books. Candia was destroyed in the 20th century, but Diana was able to find images of the city in one of the earliest illustrated travel books, as well as beautiful old maps and panoramas.

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