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

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

The Babylonian Map of the World, originating from ancient Iraq around the sixth century B.C., is the oldest known map. Depicting a circular world with Babylon at its center and surrounded by water ...

These trade routes have left a lasting imprint in cultures and markets across the world ... the Via Salaria in Italy to the Old Salt Road in Germany. In 5th Century Ghana routes unfurled across ...

A rare eleventh-century Islamic astrolabe has been discovered in the vaults of a museum in Verona, Italy. One of the oldest examples ever found and one of only a handful known in the world ...

At the beginning of the 19th century, very few people in Africa were ... "Seeing several of the old men actually in tears during the service, I asked them afterwards the cause of their weeping ...

From across the globe, these are some of the strangest places to live. From villages where the buildings are underground to a ...

The clothes they wear—suit vests, black pants and white long-sleeved shirts for the men, long dresses and bonnet-like head ...

Although cocaine use became widespread in the 19th century once it was synthesized ... However, it’s not the first detection in the Old World. In 1992 a study purported the existence of cocaine ...

In Old Quebec City, you have the chance to experience the French culture and cuisine on the North American continent. You ...

Brooklyn, Illinois, is the oldest, and one of the few surviving, majority-Black incorporated towns in the U.S. Archaeologists ...