The Rosetta Stone played a vital role in researchers deciphering hieroglyphics. It was found in 1799, but wasn't fully deciphered until many years later.

Zahi Hawass announces the discovery of the largest, most complete ancient city in the Valley of the Kings area in Egypt.

Wealth and power have always protected themselves, but if we are to arrest the downward slide of our societies and ...

It was most likely the copy Vesalius gifted to Charles V the year it was published ... or simply "The Geography," this book written by the Greco-Roman Claudius Ptolemy is considered the world’s first ...

It’s Paris Fashion Week. The Louvre is a catwalk, no one can get a taxi, and there is a queue outside the Goyard luggage shop ...

The world map we see today has grown through the efforts of many explorers who have charted new boundaries, continually ...