"All roads lead to Rome!" Roads were the lifeline of the Roman Empire, stretching from Britannia to North Africa-- people settled along those roads; armies, travelers, goods, knowledge and power ...

Ancient Greek cartographers, from Anaximander to Ptolemy, turned myth and measurement into world maps, shaping latitude and ...

For a long time, archaeologists believed that large buildings required large bosses. The idea was simple: only societies with ...

A 4,200-year-old silver cup reveals the earliest known cosmological map, predating Babylonian creation texts by more than ...

A massive platform hidden in a southern Mexico jungle for 3,000 years actually is a giant map of the Maya order of the ...

New research sheds light on a cross-shaped pit found at Aguada Fénix, a monumental complex discovered several years ago ...