Today’s updates to the cartographic world view respond to treaties and armistices, but most importantly, they represent ...

Can we expunge history by changing names on a map? Borders on our current world map have shifted in the past in response to new geopolitical realities, some reaching back into old vocabulary to ...

Egypt, one of the oldest countries in Africa, calls itself Masr in Arabic, thought to come from the word “Mizraim”, a ...

Renaming the Gulf of Mexico is an effort to rework the historical narrative about that geographic area. In good English that ...

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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Legend has it the axolotl was not always an amphibian. Long before it became Mexico’s most beloved salamander and efforts to prevent its extinction flourished, it was a ...

Before the Spaniards conquered Mexico-Tenochtitlan in the 16th century, axolotl may not have had archeological representations as did Tláloc — god of rain in the Aztec worldview — or Coyolxauhqui — ...