This belief in Babylon's exceptional nature in the ancient world is a precious testament to past cultural beliefs. This map remains a fascinating testimony to ancient knowledge and imagination ...

and remote sensing technology to map the area. With the canals irrigating more than 700 ancient farms sometime between the sixth and early first millennium B.C., the farm sizes ranged from 5,000 ...

First off the Greeks gave the world democracy – which we still use in Britain today to choose who runs the country. In ancient Athens, citizens met regularly to vote on the laws that changed ...

For the old poet's words ring only too true. In the three or four millennia ... by tiny islets still out of sight below the rim of the world. Seafarers of the Marshall Islands built elaborate ...