These giant rocks could roll at any moment. The fact they haven't offers a window into the shaking of ancient Earth.

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, a collection of remarkable architectural achievements, have long captivated the ...

The ancient Greek thinker Anaximander lent his prodigious talents to pre-Socratic Greek philosophy, geography, geometry, and cosmology.

Tiffany Shlain and Ken Goldberg pay homage to the ongoing human quest for knowledge by documenting its evolution through ...

From maps and pickaxes, it is now possible to discover ancient relics from a distance, as in the case of a recent find.

A map of the night sky created by the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus was recently discovered at St. Catherine Monastery ...

This week, uncover the secrets of Pompeii through ancient DNA, meet an adventurous emperor penguin, seek signs of mysterious ...

The oldest surviving world map, known as the Imago Mundi, offers a fascinating glimpse into ancient Babylonian life. Dating ...

The 3,000-year-old map places the Ark beyond Mesopotamia, in an unknown land where jewels hang from trees instead of fruit.

A city with temple pyramids not far from the road and a site with a Maya complex built alongside a sinkhole lend to evidence ...

An exterior view of the Beijing Ancient Architecture Museum Photo: VCG On October 23, the Beijing Ancient Architecture Museum ...

From the Great Pyramid at Giza to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, acclaimed historian and author of Istanbul Bettany Hughes charts the construction, fame and legacy of these marvels of the Ancient ...