Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When we look back at ancient history, we often default to picturing primitive societies with crude tools, simple living, and slow ...

The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Civilizations explores the world's earliest cultures, from the farming settlements of Mesopotamia to the Americas and Polynesia, via the birth of Greek city ...

Indeed, much of what humanity categorizes as “recorded history” spans little more than the last five thousand years. In the 3rd millennium BCE, the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia had already been ...

The treasure hunt begins -- The secrets of the Piri Re'is map -- The Piri Re'is map in detail -- The Antarctic maps of Oronteus Finaeus, Hadji Ahmed, and Mercator -- Ancient maps of the North -- The ...