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This image depicts the reality in the 'company town' of Abadan in which the British, and the foreigners in general, were above the locals in the social hierarchy. Iranians did not receive the benefits of the new found oil wealth, but were instead in…

This map of the Volga River appears in Adam Olearius, Vermehrte Moscowistische und Persianische Reiseebeschreibung ... (1656)

This is Isaac Maasa's 1735 map of the Caspian Sea, featuring the eastern shore, the Aral Sea and what were then the lands of the Uzbecks and Kalmykia on the northern edge of the Persian Empire.

After my father lost his battle with cancer in 2008 and my mother defeated cancer in 2006 (both of whom, like many Poles, attributed their cancers to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, not genetics), I decided to undergo genetic testing to check for…

A public memory project carried out in Budapest, Hungary, in 2014, designed to educate and inform both Budapestians and a wider public about the forced relocation of Hungarian Jews and internationals into "yellow-star houses" in June 1944. In 1944, 1…

A diagram of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre showing traditional site of Calvary and the Tomb of Jesus

Cross-section diagram of the location of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, in relation to the site believed to be Golgotha

Political, cultural, and linguistic borders have shifted significantly since the end of the Cold War, but physical infrastructure continues to divide Europe along the Cold War era political borders. The map showing the track gauges of different train…