The Imago Mundi, the oldest known world map, offers a rare glimpse into the way ancient Babylonians viewed ... capturing both the known world and celestial elements. Their map reflects an early ...

A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering ... belief that the terrestrial and celestial realms were deeply intertwined. The map also includes mythical elements, such ...

A new preprint suggests that an ancient Chinese star catalog dates to 355 B.C.E. But other researchers aren't convinced, ...

For more than two thousand years, people have mapped the stars. But a new study claims one of the world’s oldest surviving ...

The alignment of some megalithic temples in Malta suggests they may have been used to teach sailors how to navigate by the ...

Celestial maps, also known as astronomical maps ... The crowd followed a single-file line to observe the ancient maps and artifacts along a winding row of tabletops. One of the attendees, Engineering ...