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 ...

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 ...

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A slab of stone, engraved with intricate lines and motifs dating to the Bronze Age, has been revealed to be Europe’s oldest map, researchers say. Using high-resolution 3D surveys and ...

A new analysis of a Bronze Age stone slab found in France more than a century ago suggests that the roughly 4,000-year-old artifact is Europe’s oldest known map. BBC News reports that the ...

The Saint-Bélec Slab dates back to the early Bronze Age (2150-1600 B.C.) and was first discovered in 1900 in a prehistoric burial ground in Finistère, Brittany.

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 ...

The coveted metal copper and a sheltered location turned the Cypriot village of Hala Sultan Tekke into one of the most important trade hubs of the Late Bronze Age. Recent excavations confirm the ...

The elite tombs on Cyrus date from the Late Bronze Age — between 1640 and 1050 B.C. — and were filled with hundreds of artifacts given as grave goods.