Ancient Greek geographer Strabo is one of the greatest writers in the ancient world, devoting his life to studying, writing, ...

The centuries-old tradition of wassailing is making a comeback in rural England, with rituals and revelry meant to chase away evil spirits and the winter blues.

The world’s oldest map, a 3,000-year-old Babylonian clay tablet known as the Imago Mundi, may reveal the location of an […] ...

Archaeologists have discovered potentially the world's oldest 3D map, carved into the floor of a rock shelter outside of ...

For centuries, the Vatican Library has been a vault of historical records, housing some of the world's most treasured texts, ...

This week, explore decoded words from charred ancient scrolls, meet heroic frog daddies, see Grand Canyon-size lunar features ...

Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — a first for human evolution studies.

In the 1990s, archaeologists in Poland excavated one of these settlements from 18,000 years ago called Maszycka Cave. Now, ...

Explore the captivating journey of ancient Greek astronomy in which mythological tales and mathematical precision mix together.

Experts just found a 3D map that was carved into quartz sandstone likely 13,000 years ago. Located within the famed Segognole ...

New archaeological museum contains original marble map from Ancient Rome - Visitors can walk over the map in the museum in ...

UK scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough in their efforts to decipher 2000-year-old papyrus scrolls that were ...