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

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

The Babylonian Map of the World, originating from ancient Iraq around the sixth century B.C., is the oldest known map.

When it comes to operating beyond the limits of the known world into the world of imagination, [the tablet] is indispensable, ...

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 ...

Ramses the Great is credited with expanding Egypt's reach as far as modern Syria to the east and Sudan to the south.

A man planning a camping trip using Google Maps ran across a uniquely curved spherical pit in Quebec and started asking ...

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

You could look back to the last major adaptation of Homer, Wolfgang Peterson’s 2004 hit “Troy,” and say that Brad Pitt had ...

Open-world games have revolutionized the gaming landscape, offering vast, immersive environments that cater to diverse tastes ...

A new study concludes that world's whitest sands grace Tulum Beach, an immaculate six-mile expanse in Mexico's Riviera Maya.