The oldest surviving world map, known as the Imago Mundi, offers a fascinating glimpse into ancient Babylonian life. Dating ...

The map shows Mesopotamia surrounded by a double ring — which the ancient scribe labeled the “bitter river,” a river that created the borders around the Babylonians’ known world.

What to do? He decided that a magnificent gift—a lavish map of the world—might maneuver him into the new king’s good graces. D’Annebault hired Pierre Desceliers, one of the best ...

and the rest are spread from Istanbul to New York City. Click on the labeled map below to view and review the world's 12 mightiest standing monoliths.

Legend has it that a headless sculpture of the god Yaxachtun at the site formerly terrified the local Lacandon people, who feared that the world would end when the head was replaced. With its ...

In 1940, Richard and Maurice McDonald opened their first burger stand in San Bernardino, CA. With the help of Ray Kroc, the brothers took their restaurant across the country over the course of the ...

A school was labelled on Google Maps as "Hell on Earth" in what is thought to have been a joke by one of its pupils. Hornsea School and Language College in East Yorkshire appeared on the website ...

Ronald Reagan’s 1980 presidential campaign really did make a deal with Iran to delay the release of 52 American hostages until after the election, according to this labyrinthine Continue reading ...

We use imaginary lines to help locate where a place is in the world. the Arctic Circle (the ... Equator is in the Southern Hemisphere and is labelled °S. Anything lying north of the Equator ...

One of the world's oldest bottles of Cognac has been sold in an online auction for £118,580. The spirit dates back to 1762 and has been stored in a family cellar for the past 140 years.

Upon searching the battered silver Ford Taurus, police uncovered a brown pouch canvas labeled “definitely not a bag full of drugs” — to find it was stuffed full of narcotics, according to Po ...