Maps are ubiquitous – on phones, in-flight and car displays, and in textbooks the world over. While some maps delineate and ...

A backwards 1525 Bible map helped shape modern borders, influencing how we imagine territory, nations, and political space ...

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

Most Americans are unaware that today’s Middle East is an artificial construct created by British and French diplomats (Sykes and Picot) after World War I to advance their empires’ economic and ...

In 1948, the end of the British mandate in Palestine unleashed a civil war that quickly turned into a regional conflict, as ...

With tensions continuing to escalate in the Middle East, the United States government has now warned its citizens not to travel to Lebanon. This week, Hamas' top political leader was killed in an ...

The first Bible to feature a map of the Holy Land was published 500 years ago in 1525. The map was initially printed the ...

Israel said Tuesday it had bombed more than 350 military sites in Syria during the previous 48 hours, targeting “most of the strategic weapons stockpiles” in the country. Israeli Prime Minister ...

This work was supported by the National Science Foundation through the Science and Technology Studies (STS) Program, award #1152322. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations ...