World map according to description of ancient Chinese “Book of Documents, Yugong” (about 300bc) Zhang’s legend adventure An unproved information In 200 BC, Han dynasty had been bloody war with Xiongnu for years. The Han hoping to find alliance. The emperor heard in the west of Han the...
Take a look at this map of the Invasion of the Roman Empire. See the Huns and their path? It’s no wonder we’re so admixed. Here’s a map of the Hunnic empire at its peak under Attila between the years 420-469. But that wasn’t the end of the Asian invasions. The Magyars,...
Each polis had unique ruling structures and ways of life, while their geographic separation made them intensely self-reliant and proud of their unique cultures. Map of Ancient Greece, divided by region. Delphi, Thebes, and Athens are clustered together in the center, with Corinth on the ...
⁶¹Augustus even builtamonument to give averbalmap of the conquered world: whileJ. Scheid⁶²has shown us thattheRes Gestaemayhavebeen writtenfor the elite who wereableto decrypt the inscription or toask for an explanation, the monument was also destinedfor the whole populationof Rome,...
and the ensuing assumptions of empire, colonialism and race, underlie the unmanning of military aircraft, even while these aspects were purposefully, although, unsuccessfully occluded through the idea that technologies could mitigate political risks. Moreover, unmanned reconnaissance projects were cancelled...
There is no civilian map of the current configuration… Inspired by the work of Till Roeskens on Palestine, Mapping Identity tries to tell about the city – the whole of it – from the inside. A snapshot of the ordinary, a minor “Giacometti portrait”, as Baghdad is concealed…’ More...
Summary Deep in the western Himalayan mountains stands the high-altitude desert of Aksai Chin, one of the flashpoints that set off the short, sharp border war that India and China fought in late 1962. It is a part of the world where boundaries have never been precisely demarcated and where...
Initially, out of 450 brick kilns, the location of 254 were noted through the Global Positioning System (GPS) to represent their location on google map using their coordinates. However, the whole area was distributed in four zones from which 50 brick kilns were selected from all zones. The ...
The result was “Gabriel’s Map: Cartography and corpography in modern war”, which set me off on what is a continuing exploration of bodies in conflict. I’m certain that neither of these essays, let alone the projects they launched, would have happened had it not been for Peter. He ...
Figure 1. Map showing the study area (File credits: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 licence). Key: 1. Algeria; 2. Iran, 3. Iraq; 4. Italy; 5. Afghanistan; 6. Syria. The key locations of the study were specifically chosen to focus on regions where there was past evidence...