When he was in second grade, my son observed to me that Asia was a “fake continent.” Having considered myself an Asian all my adult life, I was taken aback that day as we studied an atlas together.

Upcoming map packs for Civilization 5 will keep the outlines of familiar land masses from the real world, but jumble interior tiles. The first pack is "Scrambled Continents," available today, which ...

Many authors have suggested that some Indian continental lithosphere has subducted, but owing to its buoyancy has underplated the Asian continent 4,5. More recently, tomographic imaging of the mantle ...