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 ...

can point them towards some hidden secrets of the ancient world. The Bronze Age map, at first look, is just a piece of rock etched with mysterious markings. But it turns out, the so-called "Saint ...

Newly discovered fragments of 2,200-year-old star coordinates—once thought lost—reveal the incredible skill of the ancient astronomer ... used by scientists to map objects in the sky.

Since his death in 323 BCE, the world has ... showed pupils a map of Alexander’s travels. “My jaw fell open, hit the desk, and I went home and said, ‘I want to study ancient history ...

A detail of the Madaba Map reveals how its makers imagined the world from above ... They duly cleared the ground over what had been the ancient church and made a stunning discovery: Underneath ...

"In ancient cultures, Egyptian, Akkadian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Indian, Persian, Chinese, and Greek, there existed a concept of the sacred mountain of the world upon which the tree of life was ...

The resting place of Noah’s Ark—a ship said in the Bible to have saved two of every animal during an ancient Great Flood sent by God to flush evil out of the world—may have been located ...

But Borisov claims the ancient rivers could also correspond to the Nile (Gihon), Euphrates, Tigris, and the Indus River (Pishon). “By examining a map from around 500 BC, it becomes apparent that ...

A series of ground-breaking discoveries are revealing, for the first time, the remarkable role played by the island - one of the world's least known ancient civilizations, known to archaeologists ...

In a biological preserve in Mexico’s Campeche State, a team of archaeologists has documented pyramids, palaces, a ball court and other remains of an ancient city they call Ocomtún. By Alan ...

Paramount-owned U.K. broadcaster Channel 5 has acquired premium history docuseries “Seven Wonders of the Ancient World,” a Keshet International (KI) and SandStone Global collaboration.