The world’s oldest map, a 3,000-year-old Babylonian clay tablet known as the Imago Mundi, may reveal the location of an […] ...

On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

Was Jerusalem destroyed in 587 or 607 BCE? Often overlooked in this controversy is some evidence from Herodotus, the ancient Greek historian.

So what was the first recorded UFO sighting, and did it predate the mid-20th century, when reports of UFOs became more commonplace? Unfortunately, the answer isn't clear-cut, at least when looking at ...

Cuneiform tablets discovered in Mesopotamia show that the ancient ... With these, Babylonian astrologers estimated when Jupiter and Saturn would be visible. Chaos monster and sun god of Mesopotamia.

The texts, written in cuneiform on clay tablets, have been preserved thanks to excavations in Hattusa. Their translation has been a complex process due to the fragmentation and condition of the ...

The earliest-known writing dates back to around 3500 - 3100 BC in Mesopotamia, present-day Iraq, where cuneiform script was developed. Egyptians were also developing hieroglyphic writing around ...

This is what warm fuzzy feeling you experience when you're happy looks like. A fascinating map shows the human body's response to 14 different common emotions - from fear to love and shame.