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 Babylonian city in what is now Iraq When it was made: Approximately ...

How to do it: Viking Cruises’ 14-night trip starts from £5,290 per person, including international flights. Don’t Miss: The ancient Roman city of Cartagena, Spain.Its 6,000-seat Roman ...

Rome authorities this month opened a new archaeological park and museum in the shadow of the Colosseum that features an ...

A paper map can show how far two cities are from one another, but in a world of sailing ships and donkey trains, the shortest route wasn't necessarily the one people would use. ORBIS shows likely ...

Interactive map reveals travel times in Ancient Rome – and it will make your daily commute feel like a breeze At its largest, the Roman Empire covered a staggering 1,061,780 square miles ...

Climate change and urbanization are threatening ancient sites around the world. As archaeologists fight back, satellites are among the tools they use.

Now, researchers have identified tracks of these so-called sailing stones dating back about 200 million years, in a rocky slab long prized for the five early dinosaur footprints it preserved.

A 3,300-year-old ship has been discovered at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, making it one of the oldest shipwrecks ever discovered and rewriting our understanding of sailing in the ancient ...

A paper map can show how far two cities are from one another, but in a world of sailing ships and donkey trains, the shortest route wasn't necessarily the one people would use. ORBIS shows likely ...