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

According to a controversial new study the world's oldest star map, known as the Star Manual of Master Shi, was created in ...

The Milesian School was based in Miletus and produced three great thinkers who were the pioneers of philosophy in ancient Greece.

Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...

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

The ancient Greek city-state of Syracuse on the eastern coast of Sicily started as a colony and became a Greek metropolis.

Ancient military fortifications dating back to the Ptolemaic and Roman eras of Egyptian history were recently uncovered by ...

Laura Coffey went on a quest to find the real-life islands that inspired the wanderings of Homer’s epic hero, Odysseus ...

More than a millennium ago, a Maya community collapsed in the face of a devastating drought. One writer joined an intrepid ...

The 10-year-old from Renaissance College writes a tale about a chocolatier’s journey to perfect a magical recipe.

Idealism, a hunger for power and a wish to prosper have driven some of the earliest efforts to build a world order.

Göran Bengtsson, a hobby archaeologist, was studying an 18th-century map of southwestern Sweden when he noticed something unusual.