Turkey and Middle East countries, via Shutterstock.com Lovers of antiquity and the classical world know very well that Asia Minor–modern Turkey–was formerly inhabited by a variety of non ...

Although it resembles nothing like the clear outline of a modern map of the region ... Little by little, the viewer realizes that Europe and Asia have been squeezed down into a narrow corridor ...

Today, due to modern maps and precise methods of ... he had landed in the Americas was just another part of Asia. However, this new map depicted a fourth part of the world for the first time.

“I can’t overestimate the importance of having another point on our map for early modern humans in Southeast Asia,” Miriam Stark, an anthropological archaeologist at the University of Hawaii ...

Once a very important road in Asia Minor ran north along the Aegean coast ... The magnificent ruins of Ephesus lie near the modern town of Selchuk. At the edge of the town is the great and ...