According to National Geographic, the map depicts distances between gates in the wall surrounding the Mesopotamian city of Nippur, but for decades experts questioned its accuracy. The locations of ...

From the Library of Alexandria to the lost works of Plato, the world is littered with ancient writings containing long-lost ...

Earth’s history has been marked by wars, majestic kingdoms, and monuments that have amazed the world. Each has left their ...

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Layers of forgotten civilisations shape these ancient-world books that avoid Egypt, Greece and Rome, bringing vivid echoes of ...

Seismic imaging has exposed two massive zones hidden deep in Earth’s mantle. These giant blobs, known as large low-velocity provinces, or LLVPs, stretch beneath Africa and the Pacific. They are so ...

Crop circles, gold and the face of Jesus among top Google Earth "discoveries." March 26, 2009 — -- They may not be quite as astonishing as the seven wonders of the ancient world. And many an ...

For decades, geologists labeled a billion-year stretch of Earth’s history—from 1.8 to 0.8 billion years ago—as the “Boring Billion.” They assumed not much occurred during the time: mountain building ...

I first became fascinated by death when I was 8 and my mummy took me to the British Museum to look at the mummies. When, at a slightly older age, I began to study death and the ancient world what ...