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.

Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese poetry have revealed missing information ...

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

They found that the ancient star chart actually dates to 355 B.C. — 250 years earlier than previously thought — and that it ...

Newly discovered fragments of 2,200-year-old star coordinates—once thought lost—reveal the incredible skill of the ancient astronomer ... used by scientists to map objects in the sky.

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

Blending Cities Skylines and Frostpunk, the newest free Citadelum update makes the Ancient Roman city building videogame even ...