What it is: A clay tablet inscribed with the oldest known map of the ancient world Where it is from: Abu Habba (Sippar), an ancient Babylonian city in what is now Iraq When it was made: Approximately ...

The discovery was made by researchers Georgi Georgiev and Ivelina Georgieva during an expedition near the village of ...

A set of broken stones covered with etchings of lines and squares, discovered at a 5,000-year-old sacred site in Denmark, may be some of humankind’s earliest maps, according to archaeologists ...

Image Represents One of the First-Ever Maps of the World Anaximander's map was said to have been made between 2,500 and 2,600 years ago.

What's cooler than maps? Bizarre ancient maps. Oxford University Press recently published "The Oxford Map Companion: One Hundred Sources in World History," edited by UC Irvine historian Patricia ...

Dinosaur World in Cave City, Kentucky features more than 150 life-size dinosaur models. Visitors can explore a walking path, pan for gems and dig for fossils. The park also features an indoor ...

No maps remain from the Ancient Greeks and Romans, yet we know that they looked to the stars and to the widening world around them and responded with their own influential cartography.

After decades of predictions that the world is close to peak oil, it’s pretty clear that isn’t true. Fracking, tar sands, and new offshore wells are all flowing freely. The oil industry ...

The Nebra sky disc, one of Germany's most heralded prehistoric artifacts, is often considered the world's oldest depiction of the cosmos. For a relatively small object -- the gold-speckled disc is ...

New maps of asteroid Psyche reveal an ancient world of metal and rock The varied surface suggests a dynamic history, which could include metallic eruptions, asteroid-shaking impacts, and a lost ...

A set of broken stones covered with etchings of lines and squares, discovered at a 5,000-year-old sacred site in Denmark, may be some of humankind’s earliest maps, according to archaeologists.