During the late stages of the last ice age, the Arabian Desert wasn't always the dry expanse you know today. In fact, recent geological and climate research has revealed a very different past—one ...

Ahead of a May tour of the Middle East, US President Donald Trump revived a long-running dispute over the name of the body of ...

The water body that lies between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula has been known internationally as the Persian Gulf for over 2 ...

The U.S. renamed the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, but the name change is only apparent on digital maps seen in the U.S. Mapping companies navigate political tensions ... countries began ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the oldest evidence of systematic stone blade production on the Arabian Peninsula, dating back approximately 80,000 years, at Jebel Faya in the UAE.

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In 2012, Iran threatened to take legal action against Google over its decision to drop the term "Persian Gulf" from its Google Maps and leaving the waterway between Iran and the Arabian peninsula ...

Vladimir Putin opened Pandora’s box in 2014 by annexing the Crimean peninsula, whose status as an autonomous ... to happen thanks to the double example of Putin and Trump, the political map of Europe ...

The politics of maps are undeniable Map lines are inherently political. After all ... although usage of “Gulf” and “Arabian Gulf” is dominant in many countries in the Middle East. The government of ...

Major portions of the Arabian Peninsula are already exceeding 2°C above pre-industrial and likely headed for a staggering temperature rise over coming decades. This disturbing news comes via a ...

THE THRACIAN BELT OF POLITICAL STORMS Map 3 gives the boundaries in Thrace that have been projected or actually delimited during the past forty-odd years. No natural or ethnic divisions can really be ...