Before satellites and global positioning systems, ancient civilizations charted their known universe with remarkable ...

As highlighted in the museum’s official presentation, the artifact is not just the oldest known map of the world—it’s also a cultural statement about how ancient Babylonians understood their ...

can point them towards some hidden secrets of the ancient world. The Bronze Age map, at first look, is just a piece of rock etched with mysterious markings. But it turns out, the so-called "Saint ...

The map shows Mesopotamia surrounded by a double ring — which the ancient scribe labeled the “bitter river,” a river that created the borders around the Babylonians’ known world.

THE mystery surrounding a 3,000-year-old tablet, believed to be the oldest map in the world has finally been solved. The ancient tablet has been deciphered after centuries and offers a glimpse of ...

The tablet shows a circular world map with the ancient city of Babylon represented ... the mountain location named in the Hebrew Old Testament as the resting place of Noah’s Ark.

But Stefano Campana, a 53-year-old archaeologist at the University ... and he has led site surveys all over the world, from lost villages in Costa Rica to ancient Roman ports drowned in Portuguese ...

Newly discovered fragments of 2,200-year-old star coordinates—once thought lost—reveal the incredible skill of the ancient astronomer ... used by scientists to map objects in the sky.

However, newfound traces of molecules possibly produced by eukaryotes are up to 1.6 billion years old, which indicates ... further study the world inhabited by these ancient life forms by ...