This was the Piri Reis map, a world chart compiled in 1513 by the Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis. While the map is famous for its early depiction of the Americas, a new wave of academic ...

Archaeologists have discovered a surprising field of ancient shipwrecks underwater near an ancient Greek city in Libya.

Investigating questions of kinship, archaeologists discovered that treating non-blood relatives as family goes back to the ...