THE mystery surrounding a 3,000-year-old tablet, believed to be the oldest map in the world has finally been ... But the Babylonian Empire quickly fell apart after the death of Hammurabi and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...