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.

About 1,500 years ago, in what is now South Korea, a gruesome practice known as ‘sunjang’ dictated that servants, retainers, ...

Researchers found the long-lost city of 'Alexandria on the Tigris' in southern Iraq, the famous port founded by Alexander the ...

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