Across history, ancient civilizations crafted prototypes for many of the modern mechanisms that have become integral to ...

A trail leading from near St. Louis, Missouri to Natchitoches, Louisiana, teaches us about a race that ruled “the new world” ...

The World According To Hecataeus About 520 B.C. [with] The World According To Herodotus About 450 B.C. (to Accompany) Cram's Atlas of the World, Ancient and Modern : New Census Edition-Indexed. 1901.

East Asian Paleolithic voyagers may have used dugout canoes to cross one of the strongest currents in the world.

When and where the earliest modern human populations migrated and settled in East Asia is relatively well known. However, how ...

Ancient Maps Show Islands That ... The long and fascinating history of such phantom islands is the ... who wrote a book in 1558 claiming that his ancestor had discovered the New World before ...

Many of the structures scattered throughout the ancient world were put on must-see lists by Hellenistic travelers, since they ...

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