Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...

Thousands of years ago, Chinese astronomers used an ancient record of constellations and their coordinates to study the sky.

Idealism, a hunger for power and a wish to prosper have driven some of the earliest efforts to build a world order.

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

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

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 ...

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

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

Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope, is beginning his ministry with a historic ceremony at St. Peter’s Square, blending ...

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

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