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Discovered in a remote Ottoman town in 1884, the Madaba Map is both a masterpiece of Byzantine design and a working map of Jerusalem and the sixth-century Middle East. A detail of the Madaba Map ...
It was, indeed, an age before city maps. That doesn’t mean, however, that we can’t map retrospectively. I had a stab, many years ago, at hand-drawing a map of the wider London area in Anglo ...
Abgineh Museum of Tehran, Ferdows Garden, Holy Defense Museum, Treasury of National Jewels Green Museum, Palace, Golestan Palace ... Carpet Museum of Iran, Map Museum of Tehran, Museum of Iranian ...
Most of us have a rough map of the world in our minds that we use any time we think about places. But these mental maps aren’t necessarily reliable. In fact, many of the maps in our heads share ...
MANILA, Philippines — The labeling of the western section of the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ) as the “West Philippine Sea” on Google Maps affirms that it is part of the country’s ...
There have been 307 hurricanes that made landfall in the mainland United States since records began in 1851, and now you can see them all on a single map. University of Oklahoma student Michael ...
Palestinian Ambassador to Germany Laith Arafeh calls out Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for brandishing a map of the Middle East in his UNGA speech that showed the West Bank and Gaza as part of ...
The long hours of work have culminated in an exhibition at the City Palace Museum in Udaipur, Picturing Place: Painted and Printed Maps at the Udaipur Court. It brings together 53 rarely seen ...
Since the City Palace Museum has a collection of over 28,000 photographs, 2,000-plus paintings and over 2,000 maps, paring this down to 53 artefacts—a mix of 31 topographical, district ...
Tourists visit the Golestan Palace in Tehran, Iran, on Aug. 27, 2023. Golestan Palace is one of the oldest complexes in Tehran, originally built during the Safavid dynasty in the historic walled city.