Welcome to Mid-Afternoon Map, our exclusive members-only newsletter that provides ... beautiful maps and ugly ones — and bizarre maps whenever possible. *** There used to be a Near East. It stretched ...

New Contour Map of the Near and Middle East (The Land of the Five Seas). (London: G. W. Bacon and Co., Ltd.) Price 7s. 6d.

Ancient Near East is the birthplace of agriculture, great empires, cities, sciences, arts, mathematics, astronomy, and early writing systems. The present-day Near East is the cradle of the world's ...