Researchers have now decoded a Babylonian tablet, which is thought to be the oldest map of the world ... was found. The height of the Great Wall is 840 cubits, and its trees are up to 120 cubits.

Thomas P.M. Barnett is senior business strategist at Throughline Inc. and the author of America’s New Map. Find his daily ... the pieces back together of its empire, we now spot the same ...

It’s been nearly 100 years since the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London ruled in favour of Newfoundland and Labrador in the Labrador Boundary Dispute, settling the location of the ...

Its origins go back more than a century ... following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire, which had ruled that part of the Middle East. An Arab majority and a Jewish minority lived there, as ...

The islands of maritime Southeast Asia can range from the very large (for instance, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Luzon) to tiny pinpoints on the map ... At the height of its power between the eighth and ...

The core stretches almost the length of 25 soccer fields laid end to end, or reaches a height equivalent to six and a half Empire State Buildings, including its antenna ... a glaciologist with the ...

In the height of summer ... Britain declared its protectorate over the Tswana lands, which asked for the protection of the empire from German colonizers. Thus the quasi-state of Bechuaneland was ...

Scots wrongly believe their country was a victim of the British ... empire than thought it was a “partner” with England. Prominent historians said it was a historical fact that Scotland and ...

Scots appear to be unwilling to accept their country's leading role in creating the British Empire, a new poll suggests ... to knowing less tend to think its role was small (36 per cent ...

He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...

The British Empire began in the 1500s, under Elizabeth I’s rule. The empire grew to rule over 400 million people, having a significant impact on people in Britain and the colonies. British ...