Long before skyscrapers and smartphones, human innovation began with a stone. From primitive tools to precious fossils, the ...

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

His suggestion to call the body of water the “Arabian Gulf” has apparently done the impossible: Unite Iranians.

The Indus originates from near Mount Kailash in Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) in China and shares its headwaters with the Brahmaputra The Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) obligates both India and ...

Aniruddha has been integral to bringing this ancient spirit back into the limelight. Decades ago, the spirit fell out of favour. Despite being an important part of India’s cultural identity ...

Open a book of maps and look for the “Indo-Pacific” region – it likely won’t be there. Yet the Indo-Pacific is now central to ...

This piece is part of a series of articles covering the medieval and early modern great powers of each of Asia’s regions: ...

A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is ... this Babylonian world map, carved into clay over 2,600 years ago, combines geography, mythology, and cosmology in a way that reflects ...

The book is a journey into the history, futures, places and possibilities of this ancient, urgent idea ... the watery city of Chennai in southeast India. And the third was to the wild interior ...

For each poem, the scientists looked for evidence of locations, such as descriptions of unique geographical ... allowing the team to map sightings for each dynasty. Ancient Chinese poetry is ...