Violent upheaval in the Middle East has recently spawned all manner of maps purporting to explain how the region got this way. Here, instead, are 15 maps that don’t claim as much. Or rather ...

University of CambridgeThe “London Medieval Murder Map” that was created by the University of Cambridge. Life definitely wasn’t easy in the Middle Ages. It was a period of history ...

High in the mountains of Uzbekistan, archaeologists have mapped the footprints of two medieval cities that ... stretched between Europe and the Middle East to East Asia. Named for the luxurious ...

Now, these stories are all part of an interactive Medieval Murder Maps project from the University of Cambridge’s Institute of Criminology. “The interactive Medieval Murder Maps give unique ...