It is this map that made me wonder how an accurate representation of the Philippine shape was possible in 1734, long before they had balloons, satellite imaging, Google Earth, Google Maps, and Waze.

A historian from Antique is working with the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) to have a 127-year-old ...

My second regret was declining a six-month grant to dig up old maps of the Philippines from libraries, archives, and museums abroad to be used against China’s “historical claims” to the Spratlys and ...

Old maps dating back to Spanish colonial times may hold the key to the claim of the Philippines to Scarborough Shoal. Known as “Bajo Scarburo,” the shoal now called Panatag by the Department ...

A centuries-old settlement submerged by the construction of a dam in the northern Philippines in the 1970s has reappeared as water levels drop due to a drought affecting swathes of the country.

Ruins of 300-year-old Philippines town resurface as extreme heat dries up reservoir. Pantabangan was submerged when a dam was built in 1970s . Stuti Mishra. Tuesday 30 April 2024 13:01 BST.

A nearly 300-year-old settlement once submerged beneath a major dam in the Philippines has reemerged as sweltering heat and drought dry up the reservoir. Structures, including part of a church ...

Ruins of a centuries-old town have emerged at a dam parched by drought in northern Philippines, giving residents a rare spectacle and an extra source of income in a region dependent on rice-growing.

Tony Carpio said to his friend Mel Velarde. It was an old map that Tony encouraged Mel to buy — the Carta Hydrographica y Chorographica de las Islas Filipinas, more commonly known as the Murillo ...

THE Management Association of the Philippines (MAP) said the EDSA busway system has demonstrated its potential for moving more commuters, and declared its opposition to a bid by bus operators to ...