A 4,000-year-old tax receipt is among the treasures on display at the State Library of Victoria's annual World of the Book ...

The image was also shared on Reddit that same day. The Facebook post's caption read: "The first world map ever, created by Anaximander of Miletus (610 BC–546 BC), a Greek philosopher." ...

The “oldest map of the world in the world” on a Babylonian clay tablet was deciphered over multiple centuries to reveal a surprisingly familiar story, according to a recent video published by ...

Why this ancient 'King of the World' was so proud of his library Ashurbanipal's military prowess was unquestionable, as his Assyrian Empire conquered lands from Egypt to Mesopotamia, but the ...

The Babylonian Map of the World was found in a box related to Rassam’s 1881 excavation at Sippar in present-day Iraq around 40 kilometers (25 miles) southwest of modern Baghdad.

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Since his death in 323 BCE, the world has been obsessed with Alexander the Great, who set out from his kingdom of Macedon (in modern-day Greece) at the age of 20 to conquer the mighty Persian Empire.