One of the oldest known maps of an ancient city has recently been brought into sharper focus thanks to new insights and technology. Discovered over a century ago in the ruins of Nippur, this ...
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 ...
It took decades for archaeologists to realize this 3,500-year-old tablet depicts an ancient city at scale. But how did its creators pull that off? Archaeologists from the University of Pennsylvania ...