Considered the oldest in the world ... Babylonian Empire. Although its scientific accuracy cannot compare to today's tools ...

They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are ...

Such was the case with many an empire throughout the ages, from the ancient Roman Empire to the ... still linger today.Assembled below are maps of historical empires, some of which rivaled the ...

Bactria, a huge area in todays' Afghanistan, was the eastern edge of the ancient Greek empire, established by Alexander the Great.

New evidence supporting the former argument comes from oddly out-of-place rocks collected not from modern areas of the ancient Roman empire, but from Iceland. Although the region is known ...

2012 Frontiers of the Roman Empire: Hadrian's Wall ... The publication of the Nomination file, including the maps and names, does not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever of the World ...

About 2,500 years ago Greece was one of the most important places in the ancient world. The Greeks were great ... founded over 70 cities and created an empire that stretched across three ...

A team of archaeologists in Iraq, led by Sebastian Rey, the British Museum’s curator of ancient ... moment in world history, since it marked the rise of the very first recorded empire”.