Known as the Nazca Lines—named a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1994—430 of these geoglyphs were already known. Spread over ...

In a revelation that bridges millennia, the Babylonian Map of the World, or "Imago Mundi," has emerged as a dazzling relic of ancient geography. Hailing from the venerable city of Abu Habba ...

Name: Babylonian Map of the World ("Imago Mundi" in Latin) What it is: A clay tablet inscribed with the oldest known map of the ancient world Where it is from: Abu Habba (Sippar), an ancient ...

Credit: AI-generated/ DALL-E 3. More than three millennia ago, on the edge of a river valley in what is now northeast Germany ...

The ancient city was besieged and destroyed in 125 B.C., probably in a dispute over the rights of Roman citizenship.