Australian rock art, rich in symbolism and storytelling, isn’t just a beautiful glimpse into the indigenous culture of the ...

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

ROME, Jan 11 (Reuters) - A marble map of ancient Rome, that hasn't been put on public view for almost 100 years, is getting its very own museum within sight of the Colosseum. The Museum of the Forma ...

Newly released maps of Zealandia, a massive sunken landmass many have argued should be classified as Earth's eighth continent, are revealing the topography of this underwater land in unprecedented ...

A new online tool, made by a team of historians and information technology specialists at Stanford University, shows just how long and costly it was to send people and wheat between cities in the ...

Experts have located a legendary lost city in Egypt that never appears on maps with the help of a mummy. Ancient Egyptians ...

The treasure hunt begins -- The secrets of the Piri Re'is map -- The Piri Re'is map in detail -- The Antarctic maps of Oronteus Finaeus, Hadji Ahmed, and Mercator -- Ancient maps of the North -- The ...

Archaeologists from England’s University of Cambridge and Belgium’s Ghent University have mapped an entire ancient Roman town without lifting a shovel. The archaeologists were able to fully map the ...

An elaborate 2,000-year-old "volcano map" has been discovered carved into a large volcanic rock in Mexico. Experts from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) recently analyzed ...

Rick Lagina and Steve Guptill (left) are excited to get digging for the Money Pit on Oak Island. Pic credit: History This week on The Curse of Oak Island, an ancient map points the way to the fabled ...