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 ...

A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest ...

A FASCINATING map reveals the ancient Roman roads Britons still use every day. The 2,000-year-old highways include key routes around London, Manchester, Cardiff and Bath.

AN interactive map shows where Romans occupied British towns nearly 2,000 years ago. The tool lays Roman roads over modern maps of cities including Bath, London and Chester.

Recently, the British Museum showcased the Babylonian Map of the World in a video narrated by Irving Finkel, a philologist and curator in the museum's Middle East department.

A new tree-map suggests there could be around two million unrecorded ancient trees in England.

LONDON (Reuters) - "Cheddar Man", Britain's oldest, nearly complete human skeleton, had dark skin, blue eyes and dark curly hair when he lived in what is now southwest England 10,000 years ago ...

New research has found that, rather than being seen as tasty morsels, chickens and brown hares were associated with gods and therefore off the menu when they first arrived in Britain.

Built 500 years before Stonehenge, the temple has triggered new thoughts about the beliefs of Neolithic people, turning the map of ancient Britain upside down.

An ancient map produced 128 years before the creation of Great Britain is to go on display to the public - showing the counties of England and Wales in stunning colour.

"Cheddar Man", Britain's oldest, nearly complete human skeleton, had dark skin, blue eyes and dark curly hair when he lived in what is now southwest England 10,000 years ago, scientists who read ...