Archeologists are hoping that an ancient map, left largely unstudied for 4,000 years, can point them towards some hidden secrets of the ancient world. The Bronze Age map, at first look, is just a ...
Hyperborea is a mythical land that appears several times in Greek mythology. But was it a real place? And if so, where was it?
A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest civilizations imagined the Earth. Known as the Imago Mundi, this Babylonian world ...
The resting place of Noah’s Ark—a ship said in the Bible to have saved two of every animal during an ancient Great Flood sent by God to flush evil out of the world—may have been located thanks to a ...
Walk the path of a cult initiate and explore the Sanctuary of the Great Gods on the Greek island of Samothrace in this ...
Scholars discovered the oldest known star map beneath the text of a Christian manuscript, according to new study. The long-lost catalog was developed by Hipparchus sometime between 162 and 127 BC. The ...
Carl Sagan explained the thought process of the ancient Greek scientist Eratosthenes, who determined the circumference of the ...