As highlighted in the museum’s official presentation, the artifact is not just the oldest known map of the world—it’s also a cultural statement about how ancient Babylonians understood their ...

can point them towards some hidden secrets of the ancient world. The Bronze Age map, at first look, is just a piece of rock etched with mysterious markings. But it turns out, the so-called "Saint ...

“We want to map it all—that’s the message ... and he has led site surveys all over the world, from lost villages in Costa Rica to ancient Roman ports drowned in Portuguese marshes.

The map of the Roman world was created by historians from Stanford University, and features 632 sites, including urban settlements and mountain passes. Travel times in Ancient Rome are based on ...

A prehistoric map of the night sky has been discovered on the walls of the famous painted caves at Lascaux in central France. It is a map of the prehistoric cosmos According to Dr Rappenglueck, these ...

The Facebook post's caption read: "The first world map ever, created by Anaximander of Miletus (610 BC–546 BC), a Greek philosopher." Ancient Greek philosopher Anaximander of Miletus is ...

A new preprint suggests that an ancient Chinese star catalog dates to 355 B.C.E. But other researchers aren't convinced, ...

The resting place of Noah’s Ark—a ship said in the Bible to have saved two of every animal during an ancient Great Flood sent by God to flush evil out of the world—may have been located ...