Five years ago, archaeologists announced they had discovered a massive Maya structure in southeastern Mexico. Built between 1000 and 800 B.C.E., the complex is known as Aguada Fénix, and researchers ...

The artwork on a 4300-year-old silver goblet unearthed in the Palestinian West Bank appears to show the universe forming out of primordial chaos – making it the oldest known visual representation of a ...

Researchers have launched Itiner-e, an interactive digital map tracing 300,000 kilometers of ancient Roman roads. The project reveals a far more extensive Roman network than previously believed, ...

It used to be thought that ancient Mesoamerican monuments were built and used predominantly by powerful leaders and ruling classes. Among the early Maya, however, the site of Aguada Fénix would have ...

A newly created high-resolution map of the roads that threaded across the Roman Empire charts the ancient network from Great Britain to North Africa and has added more than 60,000 miles of roads that ...

A high-resolution digital map allows people to plan their routes along the ancient roads of the Roman Empire. Combining historical records with modern mapping techniques, researchers mapped hundreds ...