THE mystery surrounding a 3,000-year-old tablet, believed to be the oldest map in the world has finally been solved. The ancient tablet has been deciphered after centuries and offers a glimpse of ...

Archaeologist Hormuzd Rassam discovered the Babylonian tablet in 1882. For over a hundred years, it remained undeciphered.

He advanced the study of a millenniums-old mystery: why the moon appears larger on the horizon than it does high in the night ...

The subject of history is a bottomless pit of interesting facts. The deeper you delve into it, the more information there seems to be waiting to be unveiled, which is part of what makes it fascinating ...