The Imago Mundi, the oldest known world map, offers a rare glimpse into the way ancient Babylonians viewed their world. Carved onto a clay tablet around the 5th century BCE, it was uncovered in ...

The Milesian School was based in Miletus and produced three great thinkers who were the pioneers of philosophy in ancient ...

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 ...

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 ...

About 2,500 years ago Greece was one of the most important places in the ancient world. The Greeks were great thinkers, warriors, writers, actors, athletes, artists, architects and politicians.