In this extract from the documentary Persians: A History of Iran, we look at the Ziggurat of Chogha Zanbil - a man-made mountain palace created 3,000 years ago by the Elamites in Iran. Watch the ...

In his inaugural address last month, Donald Trump described the US decision to hand full control of the canal to Panama, in ...

Recently, the administrator of the Panama Canal said that the vital waterway will remain under Panamanian control and open to commerce from all countries, rejecting claims made by President ... 1. The ...

Said should give his blessing to the construction of a canal across the Isthmus of Suez. Carried away with the brilliance of his own rhetoric, de Lesseps emphasised the dow such a project would bring ...

Therefore, option (d) is the correct answer. — The 193-kilometer artificial waterway that connects the Red maritime to the Mediterranean via the Isthmus of Suez shortens the maritime path from Asia to ...

As United States President Donald Trump was sworn in for his second term on Monday, he repeated his wishes to acquire the Panama Canal and rename the Gulf of Mexico in his inaugural speech. Trump has ...

President Trump’s push to take back control of the strategic waterway stokes memories of a period of U.S. imperial ambition and violence.

In fact, Ronald Reagan had made it an ... who built the Suez Canal in Egypt and with the cooperation of the Colombian government, had started a canal project on the Isthmus.

Doubling down on his pre-inauguration threat to reimpose US control over the canal, Mr Trump on Monday accused Panama of breaking the promises it made for ... the narrow Isthmus of Panama.

Israel’s defense minister has announced a series of raids that he says are targeting “terrorism” in the occupied West Bank, as Palestinian officials warned of a “man-made disaster.” ...

Whale sharks are drawn to natural underwater features such as seamounts and canyons as well as ... [+] artificial features like offshore oil and gas platforms, with both acting as migratory ...

The 2021 Suez Canal blockage resulted in a loss of nearly $89 million for the shipping company Maersk Line. This is revealed in a new study conducted by a European research team in collaboration ...