Anaximander's Map is considered by some to be the first-ever world map, and alleged versions of it have been shared across ...

A new book examines the rise and fall of the Carolingian dynasty, discussing how people across social classes understood the momentous history of ... it changed the New World To raise awareness ...

The early writing appears to date to around 2400 B.C.—preceding the previous most bygone examples by roughly 500 years.

For many years, the ancient Greeks and Romans were fooled ... need such jealous guarding with elaborate tall tales. But the world’s demand for spices grew throughout the Roman era and into ...

First discovered in 2004 but confirmed thanks to recent carbon dating, researchers found the world's oldest alphabet in a Syrian tomb.

This new four-volume History is the first to survey the entire history of slavery across the world, from antiquity to the present day. It is written by an outstanding international team of scholars ...

one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. There are many theories surrounding the gardens, from their exact location to the identities of their builders. Some suggest the gardens formed a ...