Researchers have now decoded a Babylonian tablet, which is thought to be the oldest map of the world. It was created between ...

What it is: A clay tablet inscribed with the oldest known map of the ancient world Where it is from: Abu Habba (Sippar), an ...

When it comes to operating beyond the limits of the known world into the world of imagination, [the tablet] is indispensable, ...

Ancient Babylonian world map from a clay tablet, nearly 3,000 years old, reveals a version of the Noah's Ark story and ...

THE mystery surrounding a 3,000-year-old tablet, believed to be the oldest map in the world has finally been solved. The ancient tablet has been deciphered after centuries and offers a glimpse of ...

The Babylonian Map of the World, originating from ancient Iraq around the sixth century B.C., is the oldest known map.

The Earth: a ringed planet, much like Saturn, surrounded by a hula hoop of asteroids. The summit of Mount Everest: a tropical ...

Ramses the Great is credited with expanding Egypt's reach as far as modern Syria to the east and Sudan to the south.

It has left experts puzzled, but they believe the structures could have been compacted by ancient meteor strikes ... This ...

Researchers have managed to decipher the manuscript of the ancient Greek mathematician and astronomer Ptolemy 200 years after ...

The only known specimens of Encephalartos woodii (E. woodii), a species of cycad, are all clones of the same male <a ...