The map shows Mesopotamia surrounded by a double ring — which the ancient scribe labeled the “bitter river,” a river that created the borders around the Babylonians’ known world.

Granted, it isn’t as scientifically accurate as Google Maps, nor as gloriously illustrated as cartography from Medieval times, but it does provide a unique glimpse into the way ancient ...

The Babylonian Map of the World, originating from ancient Iraq around the sixth century B.C., is the oldest known map. Depicting a circular world with Babylon at its center and surrounded by water ...

The award-winning historian William Dalrymple narrates a version in The Golden Road, an outstanding new account of ancient India’s cultural conquest of the globe. This “Sufi teaching story ...

“If a country like India that sees itself as an ancient and strong country and as a model of democracy puts Nepali territories in its map and hangs the map in parliament, it cannot be called ...