A collection of artefacts collected 2,500 years ago in modern-day Iraq reveal the forgotten world of Mesopotamia, home to ...

A discovery in an English garden led to the first direct evidence that man fought beast to entertain the subjects of the ...

All maps are influenced by the intent and biases of their creator—even those that are striving to be as accurate as possible.

He couldn’t, or maybe wouldn’t, change it as far as we wanted but he signalled that he understood the tensions of living our ...

There is truth in his claim that Ukraine and Russia are close kin, as the following maps demonstrate.What is nonsense is the ...

A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest ...

There are very few remains of ancient ships, except in one unusual place: the Black Sea has a unique environment that ...

With no intrepid Arctic explorers to question, Mercator turned to a now-lost 14th-century ... map, with many propsing it’s critical of those who think they have a handle on the world.

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Greg Grandin’s sweeping history of the new world shows how immutably intertwined the United States is with Latin America.

At the turn of the twentieth century, some Jewish exiles dreamed of a homeland in Palestine. The Jewish Territorial ...