Before satellites and global positioning systems, ancient civilizations charted their known universe with remarkable ...

A black-and-white layer cake of heavy stone ... circling around in an archaeological fugue. I thought of Civilization and Its Discontents, in which Sigmund Freud compares psychoanalysis to ...

famously known as the land between the rivers (the Tigris and Euphrates), which was the cradle of ancient civilization. This map is particularly significant because it represents a long-standing ...

By Jason Farago We call it Egypt; the Greeks called it Aigyptos; but the ancient civilization ... to the white race.” Who writes the past, and who rewrites it? “Flight Into Egypt: Black ...