For over a thousand years, people living in the Andes Mountains of South America used Inca recording devices called a "khipu" (also spelled as "quipu" and pronounced "key-poo"). This tool helped them ...

The challenge of forecasting extreme events across Ecuador is the focus for Angela Iza Wong, from the Ecuador ...

Illustrated throughout, this is a fascinating book for those interested in their surroundings. A guide to early manuscript estate maps, for use as a finding aid for historical enquiries. The maps are ...

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In September 2023, Zagori was included in UNESCO’s World Heritage List where the region was praised for its “traditional architecture [that] adapted to the mountain topography”. Of all the ...

Discovered Thursday around 3 p.m., the grass fire in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge has burned around 900 acres on refuge lands and 400 acres off of the refuge, including areas as far south as ...

Parts of Oklahoma's beloved Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge is on fire after several days of burn bans and warnings that ...

But in reality, traders “were dragging the caravans to the mountains,” as Maksudov tells ... “The final high-res maps were a composite of more than 17 drone flights over three weeks ...

Known as Tugunbulak and Tashbulak, the medieval centres were discovered in the Pamir mountains of eastern Uzbekistan. The discovery challenges long-held assumptions that Silk Road settlements ...

Known as Tugunbulak and Tashbulak, the medieval centres were discovered in the Pamir mountains of eastern Uzbekistan. The discovery challenges long-held assumptions that Silk Road settlements ...

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Tugunbulak and Tashbulak, in the mountains of Uzbekistan ... used drone-based LiDAR — Light Detection and Ranging — to map the archeological sites of the two recently discovered sites in ...