An exhibition shows the beauty and disparity of maps in a time of rapid discovery, when the shape of the known world was ever ...

A fresh clue to the lost colonists’ fate emerged when curators backlit this 16th-century map of what is now coastal ... that seeded both the British Empire and the United States.

Throughout its centuries-long existence, the Hagia Sophia has been a place of worship for many different religions and ...

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

Between superheroes and super friends, ballet dancers and a champion bulldog, this week’s picks bring a cast of characters worth getting to know. “Hymn” is getting some of the best reviews in town. It ...

As Italy turned into a battleground between foreign powers, Rome suddenly found itself in the crosshairs of a marauding horde ...

Who are these people? The timing of Caroline Finkel’s splendidly written Osman’s Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire reflects the buoyant state of Ottoman scholarship. Neglected archives have been ...

Before the advent of Ordnance Survey maps in the 19 th century, the country was mapped through a series of county maps privately produced by individuals or small groups of surveyors with wealthy ...

However, we can say the island really got on the map when it was settled in the mid-7th Century BCE by traders from the mainland ... traditions and even coinage until well into the days of the Roman ...