A map of the night sky created by the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus was recently discovered at St. Catherine Monastery ...

In this video, I’ll explore three mysterious maps that defy conventional history and challenge what we know about the ancient world. From the famous Piri Reis map to other lesser-known but equally ...

The oldest surviving world map, known as the Imago Mundi, offers a fascinating glimpse into ancient Babylonian life. Dating ...

But Mount Vesuvius’ eruption wiped it and other nearby Roman settlements off the map. The ash spewed by ... was located next to one of the ancient world’s busiest ports, where ships regularly ...

A new study revives the old argument that ancient seals came before cuneiform, humanity's earliest known example of writing.

Pottery has long been used to date archaeological sites but previously held ideas about styles associated with the iron age ...

Ancient cylinder seals in Mesopotamia shaped the development of proto-cuneiform writing in Uruk around 3000 BCE, linking ...

DNA testing of 14 individuals buried in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii has ... and is part of a wider project to map the DNA of over 1,000 human remains uncovered at the site.

These could be the earliest discovered spindle whorls, technology that was then seemingly lost for 4000 years.

Loren Munk is unmissable. Dressed in white bespeckled painter’s pants, this 73-year-old artist shambles into New York’s ...

Former Democratic congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard has been appointed as the director of national intelligence by US President-elect Donald Trump. Gabbard, who switched to the Republican Party, is a ...

The Biden administration gave Israel 30 days to increase the flow of aid, warning that aid shipments into Gaza in September had reached an alarmingly low level. By Liam Stack and Aaron Boxerman ...