Search Results: The map is not the territory

History is recorded by individual human beings with their own beliefs and interests guiding what they choose to record, and, as such, many events and details may be omitted from the account of a certain event or the story of a great person’s...

The Popol Vuh recounts the story of twins who journeyed to Xibalba. For the Maya, their round of adventures serves as a metaphor for timeless, repeating cycles and for the regeneration of earth and all living things. – Gene S. Stuart, Mayanist...

The map shows the position of Triballian territory on Balkan Peninsula between the 4th century BCE and Celtic invasion of 279 BCE, when the Triballi tribe was pushed further east. The Triballi were a Thracian tribe inhabiting the area...

A map indicating the territory controlled by the Ming Dynasty (1368 to 1644 CE) in the late 16th century CE.

A map showing the territory of the Iceni tribe overlayed in red in the context of the modern county boundaries of England and Wales.

A map indicating the regions of north-east China occupied by the Longshan culture from c. 3000 to c. 1700 BCE.

Territory occupied by the Franks in 555 after the conquest of northern Italy.

A Google Earth image of the Scythian territorial expanse. Google Earth (Data: SIO, NOAA, U.S. Navy, NGA, GEBCO, Image: Landsat / Copernicus)

A map indicating the approximate territory inhabited by the people of West Africa's Nok Culture (flourished 500 BCE - 200 CE) in modern-day Nigeria.

A map indicating the location of Sparta and her territory in the Peloponnese.