The simple line map of the world, sketched in faded brownish ink on a single small (about 11 in. by 16 in.) sheet of patched and worm-eaten vellum seems humdrum. In reality, it is by far the most ...

<br>In 150 AD, the Greek scholar Claudius Ptolemy wrote a textbook entitled the <i>Geography, </i>which earned him the title ‘The Father of Geography’. Drawing on nearly a thousand years of classical ...

On the first of five visits to Special Collections & Archives this semester, first-year students in the seminar Maps, Territory, and Power in Asia leaned over large tables to peer at maps of the ...

When Christopher Columbus first set foot in what's now the Bahamas, it was the lucky sum of a 1,400-year-old cartographical error and Columbus's own miscalculations ...

NEW DELHI (ANI) – In the heart of Central Asia lies a tapestry woven with the threads of history, spirituality, and cultural exchange. Beyond the hustle of the modern world, the ancient remains of ...

A U.S. Marine talks with Afghan National Army soldiers during a training in Helmand province, Afghanistan. Omar Sobhani/Reuters Srinath Raghavan's history of U.S. involvement in South Asia—primarily ...