Over the course of its long existence, Rome has been vastly altered, not only in its urban plan but in its very geography. Standing on a bridge over the Tiber River, a visitor has to look quite ...

A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest ...

Most of us have a rough map of the world in our minds that we use any time we think about places. But these mental maps aren’t necessarily reliable. In fact, many of the maps in our heads share ...