If the map of de la Cosa really was created later than 1500, perhaps the true earliest map of “America” is Martin Waldseemüller's world map. Created in 1507, it is the first map to depict the Western ...

Archaeologists working in western Asia Minor say they have mapped a dense constellation of 483 ancient settlements that once ...

Three incidents in one week: a detained traveller in Shanghai, a revived claim on Sindh, and a currency note from Kathmandu, ...

Religious maps from the 1300s showing tribal Israel inadvertently became the blueprint for how later mapmakers drew political ...

Hyderabad: Telangana Rising Global Summit made history as 3,000 drones formed the world’s longest airborne sentence. The new ...

Early this year, during a junket in Tokyo, I met some new friends from Central Asia, most of them from Kazakhstan. While having a drink and cruising in ...

Shattered Lands, for the first time, presents the whole story of how the Indian Empire was unmade. How a single, sprawling ...

The NCERT has introduced a chapter titled “India and Her Neighbours” in the Class VII Social Science textbook, focusing on ...

[SINGAPORE] Indonesia’s Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto thinks that South-east Asia’s goal to become a US$2 trillion economy by 2030 is achievable, on the back of ...

The bird, which breeds across northern Europe, Central Asia and South Asia, has been named “Sonbarsa” after the nearby ...

Second, partition proposals encountered stiff opposition, sometimes from unexpected quarters. Many Burmese opposed separation ...

A major volcanic cataclysm may have been ultimately responsible for the spread of the Black Death across Europe in the 1340s.