Authorities in Sri Lanka are racing against time to rescue hundreds of missing people as death toll from rain and flooding caused by Cyclone Ditwah rose to 366 in one of the worst disasters the island ...

Sri Lanka’s president said the country was dealing with the “largest and most challenging natural disaster” in its history ...

The idea of nations as neatly bordered spaces can be traced partly to medieval maps of biblical Israel. In A Nutshell ...

Five hundred years ago, a Bible accidentally printed with a backwards map of the Holy Land sparked a revolution in how people imagined geography, borders, and even nationhood. Despite the blunder, the ...

The map of the Holy Land in Christopher Froschauer’s 1525 Old Testament has the Mediterranean to the east of Palestine ...

Scientists have long tried to uncover the perilous journey humans took to reach the ancient land mass that now makes up ...

Archaeologists have brought to light a sprawling Bronze Age city that lay hidden for roughly 3,500 years, reshaping what I ...

King Maha Vajiralongkorn is the first Thai monarch to visit China since the two countries established diplomatic relations ...

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