Researchers have now decoded a Babylonian tablet, which is thought to be the oldest map of the world. It was created between 2,600 and 2,900 years ago. The Imago Mundi (tablet) provided the ...

In the British Museum in London collections, there is an extraordinary artefact known as Imago Mundi, or the "Babylonian Map of the World." Considered the oldest in the world, it was created ...

With stories set in Ancient Rome, Gilded Age New York, and more, these are the most anticipated historical fiction books of ...

A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a ...

In 334 BCE, Alexander the Great, the son of Philip II of Macedon, clashed against the Persian Empire. By the time of his death in ... This festival occurred in spring since the beginning of the ...

The Babylonian map of the world is the oldest map of the world ... And by investigating how past empires have calculated, we can see how they created the conditions of empire today. This makes more ...

which was composed by King Hammurabi of the Old Babylonian Empire and is one of the oldest preserved legal texts. One prompt reads: “A slave stands before you. This slave has disrespected his ma ...

The president who built his fan base on isolationism is pivoting to a kind of imperialism that the U.S. hasn’t seen in ...

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Thus, in 1885, the German Empire occupied some sparsely populated islands ... after the Americans established their military base in Guam, in the Marianas. Map of the Republic of Palau. Credit: TUBS / ...