Venus is the world next door. An Earth-sized planet that couldn’t be less like Earth, it is a hellish world with acid clouds.

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 ...

The great mystery surrounding the Great Pyramids of Giza may have finally been discovered after a mysterious location has ...

What's cooler than maps? Bizarre ancient maps. Oxford University Press recently published "The Oxford Map Companion: One Hundred Sources in World History," edited by UC Irvine historian Patricia Seed.

The supernova that caused the nebula was recorded by Japanese and Chinese astronomers in the 12th century. Now, we know ...

Researchers created a seismic map of Earth's interior beneath the southeastern Pacific Ocean and discovered an ancient slab of oceanic crust that appears to be stuck midway through the mantle.

A new animated map sheds light on the superhot "zombie star" at the heart of a nebula leftover from a distant supernova ...

For many years, the ancient Greeks and Romans were fooled ... need such jealous guarding with elaborate tall tales. But the world’s demand for spices grew throughout the Roman era and into ...

The country's longest continuous bike trail – the Alps to Ocean – takes travellers on a 315km journey into the ...

Archaeologists have mapped two lost Silk Road cities in the mountains of Uzbekistan that were inexplicably abandoned hundreds ...

and scope of the ancient Greek city-state Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History Peter Brown A beautifully written personal account of the discovery of late antiquity by one of the world’s most ...

one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. There are many theories surrounding the gardens, from their exact location to the identities of their builders. Some suggest the gardens formed a ...