The world’s oldest map of the night sky was amazingly accurate. Newly discovered fragments of 2,200-year-old star coordinates—once thought lost—reveal the incredible skill of the ancient ...

Given how contentious the idea is, the editor of this work has had to prepare the ground, establishing the importance of Lanka in the context of the ancient world, in the course throwing much light on ...

The Scythians played a pivotal role in the geopolitics of the ancient world. Their incursions into the Near East in the 7th century BCE reached as far as Palestine, shocking the Assyrian empire ...

Cuneiform tablets from ancient Mesopotamia cover a range of topics, from exorcising ghosts to uncovering the location of Noah’s Ark. Cuneiform tablet, c. 2nd–1st century B.C.E., Mesopotamia ...

The People of Carthage Weren’t Who We Thought They Were. The Punic people had almost no genetic ties to Phoenicians, even though the latter founded the great city of Carthage.

Even amid Syria’s archaeological richness, Palmyra stands out, containing “the monumental ruins of a great city that was one of the most important cultural centers of the ancient world ...

Dr. Konstantin Borisov says the Garden of Eden was in Egypt, not Iraq — with the Tree of Life once standing where the Great Pyramid of Giza now rises.

A map of ancient Greece. Public Domain. A digital map of ancient Greece and the known ancient world as traveled by ancient geographers has been created by researchers at the National and Kapodistrian ...

Here’s how he redrew the map of the world. He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before dying, aged just 32.

Ancient Relic #7. Go to Khentkawes Dig Site and go to the lower part of the top part. You will find a blue wire running across the ground. Follow it into the temple until you find a switch.

Researchers have uncovered what could be the world’s oldest three-dimensional map, etched into a quartzitic sandstone megaclast in the Paris Basin. The Ségognole 3 rock shelter, recognized since the ...