A 4,000-year-old stone slab, first discovered over a century ago in France, may be the oldest known map in Europe, according ...

the capitals) by location on a map: see the long list of Online Maps ... are in bold capital letters below; their first-century capital cities are in bold italics; other important cities and ...

For years, astronomers have been working to piece together the story of our universe, but the critical early chapters ...

The U.S. attacks on Iran’s nuclear sites is the latest in the Israel-Iran conflict that some say echoes the biblical enemy ...

A sequence of footprints hidden deep within a long-dried paleo‑lake bed were discovered in 2021 by archaeologists, pushing back the purported arrival of early North American settlers between 23,000 an ...

Bronze Age graves in Hungary show millet replaced meat, mobility dropped, inequality shrank, and diets changed.

Yet the majority of the early Church fathers thought that Matthew was the first of the four gospels to be written. A fragment from the work of Papias (c. 110 AD) states that Matthew was originally ...