A scientist has made a bold claim about the location of the Garden of Eden. He used Medieval world maps to find the Biblical ...

The geopolitical importance of Cyprus has been both a blessing and a curse, sparking centuries of conflict over control of ...

I have the 12th edition (1966), which is filled with high-quality black-and-white photographs, vivid prose and beautiful hand-drawn pull-out maps ... thrived long before modern monotheism and ...

It’s the best route to the Paradise visitor’s center, where park staff can help map out a trail based on ... is surprisingly easy thanks to its modern public transportation.

However, the Great Catastrophe of Smyrna and other ethnic cleansing that led up to that atrocity wiped most of the remnants of Greek culture off the map in that part of the ... located in modern-day ...

Fragment of a Neo-Assyrian tablet preserving wax, in the British Museum. (The Trustees of the British Museum) The writing boards excavated from Nimrud (modern Iraq) represent the first material ...

Over the centuries, they produced an extensive corpus of manuscripts that included passages from biblical texts, philosophical treatises, classical literature and theological commentaries, whose ...