Quite a long time ago now I saw a map which showed the physical geography of the Hittite Empire & the Ancient Near East
It was an unusual map in that the projection, centred somewhere over the Black or Caspian Sea, looked like something you would get with a camera with a fish-eye lens
And even more unusual in that the Syria/Israel coastline was shown parallel to the bottom of the page, rather than the right hand side of the page as is the case with virtually all modern maps
Just looking at that map showed how geography, history & politics are inevitably linked
I had thought that the map was in The Times Atlas of World History, but I cannot find it in the current edition
