This week, explore decoded words from charred ancient scrolls, meet heroic frog daddies, see Grand Canyon-size lunar features ...

The games in questions could be either Ludus Latrunculi or Doudecim Scripta, both of which were known board games played with bone pieces by Roman soldiers in the fifth century. Celikbas said both are ...

Researchers made the new discoveries during field work at the Bronze Age site of Kurd Qaburstan. The research provides insights into regional heritage and fills gaps in knowledge about how ancient ...

This is not exclusive to the Middle East – “map wars” are underway across the globe. Some of the more well-known examples ...

Apollonius is far from the only ancient scholar whose work was saved by the medieval Islamic tradition: “we generally recognize that we have Greek texts today because of the Arab ‘hold’ on these texts ...

Linking Delhi, the Taj Mahal and the pink city of Jaipur, with detours for temples and tigers, this is the perfect route for ...

Editor’s note: Sign up for Unlocking the World, CNN Travel’s ... his history teacher showed pupils a map of Alexander’s travels. “My jaw fell open, hit the desk, and I went home and said, ‘I want to ...

The world’s oldest map unlocks secrets from 3,000 years ago revealing how our ancestors understood the world. The Babylonian ...

The Behaim Globe depicted a narrowed Atlantic Ocean, which, if crossed, would lead directly to Cipango (Japan) and Asia. In ...

What the visiting journalists weren’t told—nor were many of the soldiers living at the station, which could house up to ...

DURING the present century the subject of historical geography has developed from rather crude efforts to show how geography has influenced the course of history to the study of the use of ...

Here, AD rounds up famous buildings from around the world that you’ll be glad you ... but we do know the complex of ancient Egyptian structures took nearly 100 years and thousands of workers ...