Ancient Babylonian world map from a clay tablet, nearly 3,000 years old, reveals a version of the Noah's Ark story and ...

Labels written in cuneiform, an ancient text, note each location on the map, according to The British Museum. Interestingly, cartographers may have used some creative license. For instance, "Babylon" ...

One major reason why ancient Greece was dominated ... Such a calm and easily navigable sea provided the Greeks with an opportunity to found new colonies in times of crisis and overpopulation.

"When you get 11 fathoms and ooze on the lead, you are a day's journey out from Alexandria," wrote Herodotus in the fourth century B.C. The Greeks even ... built elaborate maps out of palm twigs ...

These ancient nomads made human leather out of their enemies These ancient nomads made human leather out of their enemies The Dial of Destiny is real—and was found in an ancient shipwreck The ...

Smyrna was one of the most illustrious ancient and Hellenistic-era Greek cities, one of the main centers of Greek culture in ...

About 2,500 years ago Greece was one of the most important places in the ancient world ... but also in colonies scattered around the Mediterranean Sea. There were Greeks in Italy, Sicily ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login The temples and theatres of the ancient Greek world are widely known, but there is less familiarity with the houses in which people lived.

The creator of the most popular Ark Survival Ascended maps returns with Astraeos, a vast island inspired by Greek history and ...

A Greek merchant ship dating ... two underwater robotic explorers to map out a 3-D image of the ship and they took a sample to carbon-date its age. How did ancient Greek music sound?

the pebbled design is part of a 2,400-year-old floor Sonja Anderson Houses and businesses across the Greek capital incorporate—or obscure—structures spanning the city’s ancient, Byzantine ...