Religious maps from the 1300s showing tribal Israel inadvertently became the blueprint for how later mapmakers drew political ...

The map of the Holy Land in Christopher Froschauer’s 1525 Old Testament has the Mediterranean to the east of Palestine ...

Coloring the world into tidy blocks with sharp edges feels natural today. Nations look solid on a classroom map.

The inundation of water was more than just provision for crops and fields: the Egyptians called the event the coming of Hapy, ...

A new study has provided seemingly conclusive evidence that the ancient Britons really were Celts, settling a long-standing ...

A massive continent vanished beneath the ocean—and no one noticed for nearly 400 years. Now, after decades of missed clues, ...

Philopoemen was the most skilled general of the Achaean League. He defeated Sparta and propelled the league to prominence in ...

A complete copy of the Canopus Decree in hieroglyphics has been presented in Egypt, a unique discovery after 150 years.

Ubisoft has warned of falling company revenues and said it's seen that "many new games are struggling to stand out" as players turn away from traditional full-price releases. Projects that would ...

When it comes to historical epics, movies tend to receive praise for authenticity and criticism for altering real events. Not ...

The first ever map in the Bible revolutionised map-making despite being printed the wrong way round, a new study reveals.