Iran has cited a 19th-century British map as part of its dispute with the United Arab Emirates over a number of Gulf islands.

Scientists have deciphered the world’s oldest map — and they believe it may lead them to the location of Noah’s Ark.

Considering a British holiday next year? How about planning it around an area’s fantasy and folklore history? If so, then you ...

A map showing all the countries that Britain has invaded over ... It also included incursions by British pirates, privateers, or armed explorers. The British Empire is considered to have been the ...

In 1882, the British Museum acquired a clay tablet that had been discovered in southern Iraq, not far from the ancient city ...

THE first curry house opened in the UK back in 1810, and since then it has become an important part of British culture. Today ...

First suggestions by president-elect to freeze war with Russia, as Putin says he is ready to talk with ‘courageous’ leader ...

For this, they used 'Munn Maps' developed in 1912-15 under the leadership of British engineer Leonard Munn. The group covered ...

The British Virgin Islands consists of four main islands: Tortola, Virgin Gorda, Anegada and Jost Van Dyke. The entire BVI archipelago consists of more than 15 inhabited islands and dozens of ...

The full scale of the devastation by flash flooding in eastern Spain which has claimed the lives of at least 95 people ...

The pioneering British author who discovered and trailblazed the historical ... trail and identify new routes that are known ...

A full-colour catalogue has been published with the exhibition (80pp; €8). The second exhibition, British Maps of Malta, at MUŻA, co-curated by Schirò and Bernadine Scicluna of Heritage Malta ...