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 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.

The World According To Hecataeus About 520 B.C. [with] The World According To Herodotus About 450 B.C. (to Accompany) Cram's Atlas of the World, Ancient and Modern : New Census Edition-Indexed. 1901.

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.

We've pulled five of the most unusual ancient renderings of the world. Check it out: The Peutinger Table, c. 350-400 CE. This is actually just a section of a map 23 feet in length and likely ...

Scientists search the wine-dark sea for the remains of a ship that sank 2,000 years ago—carrying what is believed to be the world’s first computer ...

Severe drought intensified by climate change is drying up waterways around the world, resurfacing long-hidden fossils, artifacts, and ancient relics. Here’s a look at some of them.

The broken stones, covered with etchings of lines and squares, were discovered at a 5,000-year-old sacred site in Denmark.