Mesopotamian scribes wrote about feeling anger in their feet and love in their liver. Learn about the similarities and ...

Archeologists are hoping that an ancient map, left largely unstudied for 4,000 years, can point them towards some hidden secrets of the ancient world.

No maps remain from the Ancient Greeks and Romans, yet we know that they looked to the stars and to the widening world around them and responded with their own influential cartography.

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A set of broken stones covered with etchings of lines and squares, discovered at a 5,000-year-old sacred site in Denmark, may be some of humankind’s earliest maps, according to archaeologists ...

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Nature - The Internet of the ancient worldThe time is 8.00 p.m. in Baghdad on 14 November — 1000 AD. I discovered this with the aid of a brass astrolabe, a map of the sky with moveable parts ...

Nation & World Ancient nautical maps’ surprising accuracy is a mystery Originally published May 22, 2010 at 10:10 pm Updated May 23, 2010 at 12:16 am ...

Created around 1300, it is the largest surviving map from the Middle Ages and offers a glimpse into the mindset of the ancient Christian world.