While the pyramids of Egypt are probably the Middle East’s most spectacular tombs, the Arabian Peninsula has a wealth of monumental burial structures. New research has highlighted how north-west ...

A mysterious millennia-old slab sat undisturbed in storage for more than a century. Scientists found it was a gigantic map, likely used by a Bronze Age prince to rule the area. They now want to ...

A photo shows the Bronze Age map that may lead archeologists to previously undiscovered finds from 4,000 years ago. INRAP. Then in 2014, Yvan Pailler, a professor at the University of Western ...

Navigating our reliance on maps 04:55. A piece of rock with mysterious markings that lay largely unstudied for 4,000 years is now being hailed as a "treasure map" for archaeologists, who are using ...

After 1177 B.C. Eric H. Cline Princeton Univ., $32. A toxic brew of calamities that included drought, earthquakes, famine, disease and invasion undermined civilizations across the Eastern ...

4,000-Year-Old Slab Could Be Engraved With Map to Long-Lost Bronze Age Treasure. It'll be a while before the search begins, though. Author: Declan Gallagher. Oct 19, 2023 4:27 PM EDT.

A new analysis of a 4,000-year-old stone slab, consigned to the storage area of an ancient castle in France, suggests that it may be engraved with directions to long-lost Bronze Age treasure ...