What it is: A clay tablet inscribed with the oldest known map of the ancient world Where it is from: Abu Habba (Sippar), an ...

Geographer Alastair Bonnett on his pick of the most diverse maps, from a collection of 100,000 galaxies to a 12th-century ...

Ancient Babylonian world map from a clay tablet, nearly 3,000 years old, reveals a version of the Noah's Ark story and ...

Mass graves were reported in Ukraine soon after Russia’s full-scale invasion in early 2022, and were promptly probed by ...

In August 1945, North Field launched the two bombers that carried out the first and only wartime use of nuclear weapons in ...

A sundown town [...] is an entire community (or even county) that for decades was ‘all white’ on purpose," researchers write ...

On September 21, 1999, an earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale struck central Taiwan. In the small towns surrounding ...

The word "atlas," may conjure images of giant books chock full of maps and a dizzying array of facts and figures. However, ...

The explosion of subscription services — from streaming services and meal kits to pet toys and socks — has changed how we ...

Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer says its automatic takeoff system will improve safety by reducing pilot workload, as ...

Brooklyn, Illinois, is the oldest, and one of the few surviving, majority-Black incorporated towns in the U.S. Archaeologists ...

Historical 4X strategy game Old World, created by ex Civilization designer Soren Johnson, gets new maps, items, and events in a free update.