The Ancient Greek philosopher and geographer Anaximander, who was responsible for creating the very first map of the world. Credit: The ancient Greek thinker Anaximander, who was born in the third ...

History nerd? Got maps on your wall? The Map Myths website allows you to explore the mythical places on ancient maps.

Archaeologist Hormuzd Rassam discovered the tablet in 1882 in Sippar, an ancient Babylonian ... The writing above the map ...

In this map of Ancient Greece, you can spot the various regions of the mainland, the islands in the Aegean and the Ionian Sea as well as the Greek colonies in Asia Minor, a region that was first ...

Evans said it proves that Hipparchus, often considered the greatest astronomer of ancient Greece, really did map the heavens centuries before other known attempts ... The phenomenon of precession in ...

Amid today’s climate crisis, ancient climate records may hold valuable lessons for our future. By looking into our distant past, we can unlock insights that help address current environmental ...

Carvings at Ancient Monument May Be World's Oldest Calendars Aug. 6, 2024 — Markings on a stone pillar at a 12,000 year-old archaeological site in Turkey likely represent the world's oldest ...

If this colossal solar storm hit our technologically advanced world the effects would have been devastating. Earth is no stranger to solar storms. Just this year we've been bombarded with storms ...

Massive accumulations of gypsum and other sulfates in the La Corona lava tube system in Lanzarote, Spain. Credit: Bogdan Onac Lava tubes on Earth have been studied for signs of ancient microbial life, ...

As a people we Indians are rather inept at presenting our real achievements to the rest of the world. So many among ... ridiculous considering that ancient India had many genuinely spectacular ...

Pangaea is Earth's most recent supercontinent ... More than a century ago, the scientist Alfred Wegener proposed the notion of an ancient supercontinent, which he named Pangaea (sometimes spelled ...

Ever since the term “Snowball Earth” was first proposed in a 1992 paper by American geologist Joseph Kirschvink, it has prompted substantial debate among scientists. While geologists have indeed ...