Geography is destiny for nations, and history the proof. The Greeks saw the physical world as an encircling environment (a word we take from the Old French viron, circuit). The Romans applied Greek ...

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THE name of Kiepert is in itself a sufficient guarantee of the thoroughness and accuracy of a book on geography. That writer, in his “Lehrbuch der Alten Geographie”—from which the present work is ...

EARTH can be a confusing enough place these days but explorers from thousands of years ago had it much worse. Below is a round up of whimsical ancient maps that include phantom islands, legendary ...

The Geopolitical Orbits of Ancient India: The Geographical Frames of the Ancient Indian Dynasties by Dilip K Chakrabarti (New Delhi: Oxford University Press), 2010; pp 198, Rs 650. The book explores ...

Former Bonsoir host Yasmin Rajapakse is bringing out a new English edition of Eugène Burnouf’s memoir Ancient Geography of Ceylon. Burnouf was one of the most eminent French scholars and orientalists ...

EARTH can be a confusing enough place these days but explorers from thousands of years ago had it much worse. Below is a round up of whimsical ancient maps that include phantom islands, legendary ...