A map showing the relative small size of Rome in relation to its neighbors in 380 BC. The Greek colonies are shown at the foot of the boot of Italy, the Etruscan League is to the north and the Italic Tribes to the east.

A map from 1898 of Mexico, Central America and the West Indies. The map includes an inset map of Cuba and the Isthmus of Nicaragua. "The surface of the Rocky Mountain highland in Mexico is quite similar to that of the great plateau...

A six-part series from NPR provides an easy-to-understand history of the relations between the Middle East and the Western world. Beginning with the Crusades, the series takes us through the rise of the Ottoman Empire, European...

Catawba River rises in the Blue Ridge Mountains of McDowell County, approximately 20 miles east of Asheville, flowing east-northeast above Hickory until turning southward into the massive Lake Norman Reservoir. It then continues south,...

A six-part series from NPR provides an easy-to-understand history of the relations between the Middle East and the Western world. Beginning with the Crusades, the series takes us through the rise of the Ottoman Empire, European...

A six-part series from NPR provides an easy-to-understand history of the relations between the Middle East and the Western world. Beginning with the Crusades, the series takes us through the rise of the Ottoman Empire, European...

A six-part series from NPR provides an easy-to-understand history of the relations between the Middle East and the Western world. Beginning with the Crusades, the series takes us through the rise of the Ottoman Empire, European...

A six-part series from NPR provides an easy-to-understand history of the relations between the Middle East and the Western world. Beginning with the Crusades, the series takes us through the rise of the Ottoman Empire, European...

The Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine in the south-west of Honshu Island is a cluster of mountains, rising to 600 m and interspersed by deep river valleys featuring the archaeological remains of large-scale mines, smelting and refining sites and...