What it is: A clay tablet inscribed with the oldest known map of the ancient world Where it is from: Abu Habba (Sippar), an ...

The world map we see today has grown through the efforts of many explorers who have charted new boundaries, continually ...

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

Using information from inside the rocks on Earth’s surface, scientists have reconstructed the plate tectonics of the planet ...

What to do? He decided that a magnificent gift—a lavish map of the world—might maneuver him into the new king’s good graces. D’Annebault hired Pierre Desceliers, one of the best ...

Britain and its Empire lost almost a million men during World War One; most of them died on the Western Front. Stretching 440 miles from the Swiss border to the North Sea, the line of trenches ...

A now-retired officer who arrested Ryan Routh decades ago in North Carolina says he was known to the local bomb squad.

A new generation of expedition cruise ships are bringing a completely reimagined style of cruising to the Mediterranean.

The first time Earth’s geologic record – information found inside rocks – has been used to create an animation of this kind.

Salil Kapoor, former president of Atlas Cycles, reportedly took his own life at his New Delhi residence. A note mentioning ...

In a remarkable discovery, researchers have uncovered a vast trove of indigenous Amazigh legal contracts, known as “arraten,” ...

The name pays homage to the former Romanello’s Roseland, which operated in the space for 75 years before closing in 2003.