A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest civilizations imagined the Earth. Known as the Imago Mundi, this Babylonian ...

But this ancient map may prove just as effective. The Saint-Belec slab was declared Europe's oldest map in 2021, and ever since, archaeologists have been trying to decipher its markings, to lead ...

It’s part of the 10th- or 11th-century A.D. Codex Climaci Rescriptus, a collection of parchments from St. Catherine’s monastery in Egypt with monastic writings in Syriac, an ancient language ...

The Saint-Belec slab—a 4,000-year-old, 5-foot by 6.5-foot carved piece of stone—was found to be what researchers are calling a “ treasure map ” to Bronze Age archaeological destinations ...