This is not exclusive to the Middle East – “map wars” are underway across the globe. Some of the more well-known examples ...

The world’s oldest map, a 3,000-year-old Babylonian clay tablet known as the Imago Mundi, may reveal the location of an […] ...

A new and spellbinding book tells the history of the very ancient past of Mesopotamia, the land between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris. Between Two Rivers by Moudhy Al-Rashid, a researcher at the ...

Google Maps will display the name “Gulf of America” instead of the “Gulf of Mexico” for U.S. users once official government sources are updated to reflect the name change ordered by ...

In the post, the company said, "The names you see in the Maps app are based on your country location, which is determined by information from your phone's operating system (e.g., iOS and Android ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- The Pittsburgh Three Rivers Arts Festival ... An update on the location is expected early this year, the website says. A map of this year's festival grounds, as well as ...

Google Map users will still “see their official local name” based on their location. So, for users outside of the United States, Google Maps will likely still have the previous names ...

Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIRED It's totally understandable if you haven’t opened Apple Maps since its disastrous launch in 2012, which among other things saw people ...

Google has said it will be updating its maps to change the "Gulf of Mexico ... The company has made similar location-based changes over the years, depending on where you are: Geographers also ...

Consider that Eli Manning (1st), Larry Fitzgerald (3rd), Philip Rivers (4th), and Ben Roethlisberger (11th) were all selected in the first 11 picks that year. Both Fitzgerald and Rivers are first ...

Overlooking the Tigris River as it winds through Baghdad, the venue became a meeting ground for diplomacy, culture, and celebration during the Iraq-China Friendship Association's event on Friday ...

but Apple Maps has its own version as well, dubbed Look Around. The principle is essentially the same: you find a location on a map and get to see what it looks like if you were actually standing ...