The recommended things to see in Pompeii are labeled on our map. The top-left quadrant is the ancient city. It takes a while to see if you want to see all of it. The modern city of Pompei is on the right, east of the ancient city of Pompeii. Ancient Pompeiiis your main target he...
Asia is the largest continent in the world. It’s home to the world’s two most populous countries,ChinaandIndia. The continent contains over half of the Earth’s population, as well as a significant portion of its land area. Asiais a mix of ancient traditions and cutting-edge innovation....
While most of your map should be basically to scale, having traced a printed map as your guide, it's fun to add not-so-scaled highlights. For example, Brianna added The Leaning Tower of Pisa to our map of Italy and Mt. Fuji to Japan in years past. And I suspect that Uluru is not...
In the preceding pages, I have brought forward previously unnoticed evidence regarding the influence of the Yale Martellus map on Giovanni Contarini’s world map of 1506 and have demonstrated the profound influence of the map—or one very similar to it—on Martin Waldseemüller’s world map of ...
The winter storm we experienced in Bucharest (which had enveloped most of Europe) had blown through and the snow was just beginning to melt. Throughout the morning we dodged droplets of water and snow coming off the buildings while we walked the sidewalks of the city center listening to our...
copies. Icons of the Blacherniotissa could show her in many poses. The attribution was associated with the spiritual manifestation of the power of the Virgin in this location and could be expressed in different icons. You can tell which icons are Blacherniotissa because they are labeled with...
TheTocharian languages, now extinct, were spoken in theTarim Basin(in present-day northwestern China) during the 1st millenniumce. Two distinct languages are known, labeled A (East Tocharian, or Turfanian) and B (West Tocharian, orKuchean). One group of travel permits forcaravanscan be dated...
The nine major periods of ancient Troy are labeled I to IX, starting from the bottom with the oldest settlement, Troy I. In periods I to VII Troy was a fortified stronghold that served as the capital of the Troad and the residence of a king, his family, officials, advisers, retinue, ...
Troy, ancient city in northwestern Anatolia that holds an enduring place in literature and archaeology. It lay on trade routes between Europe and Asia, and questions of its size, wealth, and status are matters of scholarly debate. The legendary Trojan Wa
Pagan, village, central Myanmar (Burma), situated on the left bank of the Irrawaddy River and approximately 90 miles (145 km) southwest of Mandalay. The site of an old capital city of Myanmar, Pagan is a pilgrimage centre and contains ancient Buddhist sh