Oldest map of the world on nearly 3,000-year-old Babylonian tablet deciphered to reveal surprisingly familiar story Dr. Irving Finkel, a curator at the British Museum, called the tablet "the ...

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There are parts of the excavation site that date back to the Sasanian Empire of the 3 rd through 7 th centuries, but a ...

Sites include 6,000-year-old long barrows, Roman camps such as those on Hadrian's Wall and 20th Century areas linked to the world wars. The map covers more than half of the country. Duncan Wilson ...

As scientists work hard to track and contain the coronavirus outbreak, misleading information about the global spread of the virus continues to flourish on the internet. Here's how a decade-old ...

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Amid rising concerns about the collapse of Kim Jong-il’s oppressive regime (1994-2011), China quietly laid the groundwork to ...

Using laser scans and GPS cameras, accurate down to one inch, the U.S. Geological Survey has so far mapped more than 600 ...

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