William Dalrymple’s The Golden Road places India, not China or Europe, as the global wellspring of learning and power. By Shruti Kapila In 1877 a Prussian geographer, Baron von Richthofen, coined the ...
The Babylonian Map of the World, originating from ancient Iraq around the sixth century B.C., is the oldest known map. Depicting a circular world with Babylon at its center and surrounded by water, it ...