The idea of nations as neatly bordered spaces can be traced partly to medieval maps of biblical Israel. In A Nutshell Medieval Christian maps showing the twelve tribes of Israel featured clear ...

The site is widely identified with the ancient village of Bet Zecharia, where the Seleucid army and the forces of Judah ...

Sephardi Jews flourished for centuries in Muslim Spain and Portugal, creating a luminous culture of poetry, science, and ...

Israel is planning to expel residents of the ancient West Bank town of Sebastia to create a national park for settlers.

Coloring the world into tidy blocks with sharp edges feels natural today. Nations look solid on a classroom map.

During the Gaza war, Israel raced to redistrict land in the occupied West Bank, drastically changing the map. Palestinians say annexation is underway, though Israel denies it.

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

During the Gaza war, Israel raced to redistrict land in the occupied West Bank, drastically changing the map. Palestinians say annexation is underway, though Israel denies it. During the Gaza war, ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

"We did the simplest thing that could be done — we just mapped them and pieced them together." ...

A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas went into effect on Friday. President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that both Israel and Hamas had "signed off" on the first phase of a peace plan in Gaza ...