The map shows Mesopotamia surrounded by a double ring — which the ancient scribe labeled the “bitter river,” a river that created the borders around the Babylonians’ known world.

Name: Babylonian Map of the World ("Imago Mundi" in Latin) What it is: A clay tablet inscribed with the oldest known map of the ancient world Where it is from: Abu Habba (Sippar), an ancient ...

What to do? He decided that a magnificent gift—a lavish map of the world—might maneuver him into the new king’s good graces. D’Annebault hired Pierre Desceliers, one of the best ...

Legend has it that a headless sculpture of the god Yaxachtun at the site formerly terrified the local Lacandon people, who feared that the world would end when the head was replaced. With its ...

Researchers have created the first neuron-by-neuron map of an adult fruit fly brain, marking a major achievement in brain ...

In July, a baby boomer got a stern talking-to after walking out onto the world’s most famous fountain to refill her water bottle. Last month, two nitwits — a Dutch kid wielding a Sharpie and a ...

Astronomers have achieved a major breakthrough in solar physics by successfully producing detailed maps of the Sun's coronal ... Inouye Solar Telescope, the world's most powerful solar telescope ...

The following timeline and maps describe a few instances of Allied ... In August 1942, the representative of the World Jewish Congress in Sqitzerland, Gerhart Riegner, was informed of a German ...

Re-energizing Gap Inc. is a task of colossal proportions. But designer Zac Posen says he’s up for the challenge.

In early September 2024, reports emerged that JetBlue Airlines had displayed an inaccurate in-flight map that gave the false impression much of Israel was part of the "Palestinian Territories.

An international team of researchers and gamers, led by Princeton’s Mala Murthy and Sebastian Seung, mapped every neuron and ...