Article link: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/1952-04-01/changing-map-asia-political-geographyhttps://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule ...

The Composite Map of the Ming Empire (Da Ming Hunyi Tu) reflects the political situation in AD 1389 but was likely painted much later. Original Chinese labels were later covered with Manchu on paper ...

Perhaps more so than any other tool used by the clandestine services, an accurate map can mean the difference between success and failure — or between life and death. The CIA, renowned for its secrecy ...

After mapmaker Judah Ben Zara was banished from Spain in 1492, when Ferdinand and Isabella expelled their kingdom’s Jewish population, the exiled cartographer continued plying his craft in the Middle ...