Maps feel simple at first glance, but every now and then one forces you to pause and look again. The maps in this list play ...

British-born zoologist and founder of the Save the Elephants group Iain Douglas-Hamilton has died at age 83. The group said ...

The Middle East has been a hotbed of conflict for decades, as such many nations within the region have built up their ...

A digital atlas of ancient Rome’s highways and byways reveals a road network that was more extensive than thought.

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

The Assyrian business community also had the first businesswomen and female investors. Generous tax breaks were given to ...

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Have the history wars of the past decade finally ended? By Nicholas Harris In 2012, the BBC broadcast a documentary series titled Empire, presented by Jeremy Paxman. I watched the programmes at the ...

An international team of researchers publishes the first high-resolution digital atlas of Roman roads, doubling the known length and exposing the vast gaps in our knowledge. This new dataset, ...

Monty Python famously asked what the Romans ever did for us, but as a new map shows, they constructed a vast network of roads that revolutionized the world. Called Itiner-e, the incredible map ...