Homer’s Odyssey is a quest, following King Odysseus’s ten-year journey back home to Ithaca after the Trojan war. It is a tale with distinct geographic, spatial and temporal dimensions. It is no wonder ...

A digital tool lets users explore the Roman Empire’s road network and, using historical data, estimate how long journeys between cities took 2,000 years ago. View on euronews ...

Monty Python famously asked what the Romans ever did for us, but as a new map shows, they constructed a vast network of roads that revolutionized the world. Called Itiner-e, the incredible map ...

An amateur astronomer from Quebec spotted an unusual circular depression while planning a camping and road trip through the ...

Museum-goers in San Francisco now have the chance to trace the momentous first meeting of East and West to two rare 400-year-old maps jointly crafted by Chinese and European scholars. The exhibition ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A New Map of the Promised Holy Land,’ by Dutch father and son Justus Danckert the Elder and Cornelis Danck erts the Younger, ...

The walls had unique shapes, suggesting they weren’t part of a larger settlement, researchers said. Fabián Gutiérrez Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia The Mayans set themselves apart as ...

The vast engineering feats of the 7 wonders of the world allow travelers the chance to explore some of the world’s most fascinating civilizations—perfect for your next big adventure. ByAlex Ledsom, ...

In the first century B.C, King Antiochus I of Commagene built a sanctuary unlike any of his predecessors. His unexplored tomb at Nemrut Dağ may show us more about death and worship in ancient Turkey.