Cuneiform tablets from ancient Babylon cover a range of topics, from exorcising ghosts to uncovering the location of Noah’s ...

The Framji Dadabhoy Alpaiwalla Museum documents the history and legacy of the ancient Parsi community - a small ethnic group ...

At the turn of the twentieth century, some Jewish exiles dreamed of a homeland in Palestine. The Jewish Territorial ...

Habeas corpus is a boundary marked by steel bars and the rule of law that keep any of us from being held in jail by the government without due process.

Known as the Imago Mundi, this Babylonian world map, carved into clay over 2,600 years ago, combines geography, mythology, and cosmology in a way that reflects both the intellect and imagination ...

Maps have been around since humans could communicate through drawings to describe the location of a specific place. Some of ...

The City and Borough of Juneau released updated flood inundation maps on Thursday that show barriers being installed along the Mendenhall River should protect neighborhoods even at an 18-foot ...

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