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 ...

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 ...

A Princeton-led team of scientists has built the first neuron-by-neuron and synapse-by-synapse roadmap through the brain of an adult fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster), marking a major milestone in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Consciousness remains one of the biggest mysteries. Some scholars believe that it is not limited to humans but could be a ...

The apparent escalation in Israeli military activity — against Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah — comes amid rising concern over a ...