Maps can be a powerful tool for understanding the world, particularly the Middle East, a place in many ways shaped by changing political borders and demographics. Here are 40 maps crucial for ...

Violent upheaval in the Middle East has recently spawned all manner of maps purporting to explain how the region got this way. Here, instead, are 15 maps that don’t claim as much.

Shalev said the maps teach us a lot about the trends in Europe in the 16th century, perhaps even more than they show us the situation of the Middle East at the time. The maps are indeed a unique ...

At the same time, humans were experimenting with farming in the Near East, the study says, and developing other means for producing large amounts of food. Despite their dramatic appearance, desert ...

A MAP of Europe and the Middle East on a scale of 1: 11 million has been published by the Royal Geographical Society on behalf of the British Council. The map is drawn on Murdoch's third conical ...

In an ancient amphitheater, a Russian orchestra clad in black played before a hushed crowd on Thursday. But this was hardly a romantic setting. This was in Syria, a country hollowed out by a ...

How the Middle East gave Europe religion, three times The Middle East actually gave Europe religion four times, including Islam, but this map shows the first three.