In 1882, the British Museum acquired a clay tablet that had been discovered in southern Iraq, not far from the ancient city ...

A recet video by the British Museum described how its cuneiform instructions could be followed to find the resting place of ...

It features 632 sites across the UK, Europe and into Africa including urban settlements and mountain passes The map covers approximately 4 million square miles (10 million square km) of land and ...

Researchers think they have found a depiction of Noah’s Ark on the 3,000-year-old Babylonian Map of the World. Also known as ...

Scientists have succeeded in deciphering the world's oldest map, engraved on a clay tablet about 3,000 years ago. It seems to contain the possible location of "Noah's Ark." The Babylonian artifact, ...

Bonampak means "painted walls" in Maya, and the site is known for just that: beautiful murals depicting the life of the ancient Maya. The three-roomed Templo de las Pinturas has remarkably well ...

2012 Ancient City of Ping Yao - Location map Clarification / adopted 2012 Ancient City of Ping Yao - Map of the Ancient City of Ping Yao Clarification / adopted 2012 Ancient City of Ping Yao - Map ...

The ancient city of Troy was located along the northwest ... These are frequently identified as Troy I-Troy IX. On the interactive map on the home page, the levels are represented by different ...

This tree-map is sounding a rare note of optimism in the conservation world. But the Woodland Trust charity warns that these trees - known as ancient or veteran specimens - have "almost no" legal ...

This interactive map explores the complex and surprising evolution of Auschwitz, the scene of one of the worst crimes in human history. This was where more than a million men, women and children ...

It was all thanks to the discovery of a long-forgotten map. The document, found in a Newcastle library, revealed a rich pasture landscape littered with ancient field names, hedgerows and woodland ...