The 3,000-year-old map places the Ark beyond Mesopotamia, in an unknown land where jewels hang from trees instead of fruit.

The oldest surviving world map, known as the Imago Mundi, offers a fascinating glimpse into ancient Babylonian life. Dating ...

Homer's Ancient Greek Poem Iliad has inspired a small village in Turkey to install busts of the Trojan war heroes on their ...

The Imago Mundi was discovered in the late 19th century in southern Iraq, near the site of ancient Babylon. Upon acquisition by the British Museum in 1882, researchers identified it as the world’s ...

This map shows the approximate location of the major ... Tacitus described them as red-haired and large-limbed. Little is known about this group who lived in what is today Grampian, except that ...

New Mexico National Parks, Carlsbad Caverns and White Sands National Parks, are impressive and there's a host of other ...

Written by the former chief historian of NASA, the book examines the evolution of our cosmic understanding—from early civilizations to the present day ...

A link exists between 6,000-year-old engravings on cylindrical seals used on clay tablets and cuneiform, the world’s oldest ...

In the half-dark of a third-floor office, Danielle Levy lifted a clay tablet out of its box. Carefully examining it with ...

Egyptology was a burgeoning academic discipline in the 19th century, and a fascination with ancient Egypt — known as Egyptomania — swept through Europe and America. But it's now unclear ...

The Silk Road was a network of ancient trade routes between Europe and Asia that "facilitated the exchange of goods and ideas between people from China to Venice between the second century BC and ...