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 ...

This was one of the most important trade routes in the ancient world, and Troy’s location ... Did Homer base his poems on true events, the details of which had been passed down to him by ...

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 ...