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 ...

Before satellites and global positioning systems, ancient civilizations charted their known universe with remarkable ingenuity. Among these early cartographic marvels, the Babylonian Map of the ...

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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 ...

A relief of the ancient Maya site archaeologists are calling Ocomtún. The site includes pyramids, palaces and a ball court, and lies within a biological preserve in Mexico’s Campeche State.