In 1908, an archaeologist in Crete discovered a small clay disk bearing unknown symbols. Now known as the Phaistos disk, it ...

One of ancient Greece's most hallowed sites has been found thanks to a determined Swiss archaeologist, a chatty local, and a ...

The map is a 5 by 3-inch tablet that depicts ... unveils its aquatic secrets after 240 million years Ancient computer reveals ...

Seafarers of the Marshall Islands built elaborate maps out of palm twigs and cowrie ... a document written in the first century by a Greek merchant living in Alexandria, described trading routes ...

The Story of the Trojan War The tale of the Trojan War is perhaps the most famous story of ancient Greek mythology ... On the interactive map on the home page, the levels are represented by ...

People in ancient Mesopotamia depended on rivers. But rivers sometime moved, imposing stress on communities. Research shows ...

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 1.31 Map of Rome with the location of the Palatium ... Credit: Public domain / ...

This article follows our family as we visit the Ancient Agora of Athens. Plus, learn about the history of this iconic ...

Researchers believe they may have found a fragment of a long-lost star map compiled by the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus, who made the earliest known attempt to chart the entire night sky.

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From a one-room taverna in Montreal to a global empire, Costas Spiliadis’ forty-five years of Milos comes full-circle with a ...

An underfunded agency is up against the agriculture industry’s unstoppable expansion of cash crops — and humanity’s heritage hangs in the balance.