historians have created an interactive map that lets you explore the Empire and see how long it would have taken - and how much it would have cost - to travel the world in 200 CE. The map of ...

In his new book “Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire” (Basic Books), Yale professor Eckart Frahm offers a comprehensive history of the ancient civilization (circa 2025 BCE to 609 ...

Around 1450, the Venetian government commissioned a monk named Fra Mauro to make a mappa mundi, a map of the world ... and running a Mediterranean empire. World maps were not made for sailors ...