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 ...

Chichén Itzá, "the mouth of the well of the Itzás," was likely the most important city in the Yucatán from the 10th to the 12th centuries. Evidence indicates that the site was first settled as ...

Then, in 334 BCE, he led his army into Asia to fulfil Philip’s ambition of conquering the Persian Empire — the largest in the world at that ... showed pupils a map of Alexander’s travels.

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 ...