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

According to a controversial new study the world's oldest star map, known as the Star Manual of Master Shi, was created in ...

For more than two thousand years, people have mapped the stars. But a new study claims one of the world’s oldest surviving ...

Ancient military fortifications dating back to the Ptolemaic and Roman eras of Egyptian history were recently uncovered by ...

Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese poetry have revealed missing information ...

They found that the ancient star chart actually dates to 355 B.C. — 250 years earlier than previously thought — and that it ...

Göran Bengtsson, a hobby archaeologist, was studying an 18th-century map of southwestern Sweden when he noticed something unusual.

A collection of artefacts collected 2,500 years ago in modern-day Iraq reveal the forgotten world of Mesopotamia, home to many world firsts – including beer production.

Laura Coffey went on a quest to find the real-life islands that inspired the wanderings of Homer’s epic hero, Odysseus ...

Sacred geometry found in ancient Greek temples is grounded on the idea that the world is created based on a consistent ...

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 ...