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 ...

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HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — The death toll in widespread flooding and landslides caused by heavy rains in Southeast Asia mounted on Monday with another person reported killed in Vietnam, and five others in ...

From the Minoan royal road to the Ridgeway, ancient roads still exist today showing how past civilizations built networks ...

Using Google Earth as our map, we follow the Mongol invasions of Japan by tracing the sea routes, landing points, and ...

Earlier, it was reported that at least 170 homes were damaged and a man in his 70s was unaccounted for, according to Japan’ s ...

Fifty years after the last U.S. helicopters left Saigon, why America lost the Vietnam War is elusive. But can a tabletop ...

Discover six lesser-known UNESCO World Heritage sites across Asia, including India's Rani-ki-Vav, Thailand's Sukhothai, South Korea's Namhansanseong, Japan's Kii Mountains, Malaysia's George Town, and ...