Most Americans are unaware that today’s Middle East is an artificial construct created by British and French diplomats ... They carved up the Middle East map with the stroke of a pen, and ...

Researchers have now decoded a Babylonian tablet, which is thought to be the oldest map of the world ... was discovered in the Middle East and it was acquired by the British Museum in 1882.

The British Empire began in the late 1500s under Queen ... Since the 17th century, the British-owned East India Company had controlled large parts of India. In 1838 there was terrible drought ...

To this day, Israel or the Palestinian territories may fall off some maps, depending on the politics of their makers. This is not exclusive to the Middle East – “map wars ... During the British ...