The oldest surviving world map, known as the Imago Mundi, offers a fascinating glimpse into ancient Babylonian life. Dating ...

Name: Babylonian Map of the World ("Imago Mundi" in Latin) What it is: A clay tablet inscribed with the oldest known map of the ancient world Where it is from: Abu Habba (Sippar), an ancient ...

Loren Munk is unmissable. Dressed in white bespeckled painter’s pants, this 73-year-old artist shambles into New York’s galleries with a slightly crazed look. He walks around with his little camera, ...

The Babylonian oldest map solved revealing ancient beliefs about Mesopotamia and mysterious lands beyond the known world.

Chichén Itzá, "the mouth of the well of the Itzás," was likely the most important city in the Yucatán from the 10th to the 12th centuries. Evidence indicates that the site was first settled as ...

or otherwise lost to German forces during World War II. Here, naval historian Timothy Mulligan describes 25 of the most historically significant U-boats. Click on the map labels and plunge into ...

Scientists have unlocked the secrets of the world’s oldest map - a 3,000-year-old clay tablet known as the Imago Mundi - which is believed to show the location of 'Noah’s Ark'. This ...

This story appears in the June 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. It’s nearly midnight on the broad hill called Firmihin, where a dragon’s blood forest grows. The moon, a night past ...

Plenty of other Tolkien books and box sets are featured in the B2G1 Free Book Sale at Amazon, including The Lord of the Rings ...

These Scorestreaks in Black Ops 6 offer exceptional value for their point cost, dominating the META with their lethal or ...

Along these lines, the congress program of Tomorrow.Building Solutions World Congress was organized around the major challenges the sector must face to implement its transformation: urban planning and ...

The new global map of bees will help in the conservation ... from habitat loss and the use of pesticides. Yet little is known about the array of species living on every continent save Antarctica ...