Five hundred years ago the first Bible featuring a map was published. The anniversary has passed uncelebrated, but it transformed the way that Bibles were produced. The map appeared in Christopher ...

No doubting the scholarly rigour of this highly visual production, which reflects maps’ many distinctive styles and ...

The Battle of Ipsus reshaped the empire of Alexander the Great, as rival successors clashed in a fight that ended hopes of ...

In this series of unique timepieces, the very best of watchmaking and artistic savoir-faire reign supreme.

Underwater archaeologists have uncovered an ancient Egyptian pleasure boat, which appears in art and writing but has never ...

For decades, the seabed off the coast of Egypt has been scanned to digitally map the remnants of one of the seven wonders of the world for its resurrection.

The Rosetta Stone is, inarguably, one of the most famous archaeological artifacts in the world. Shortly after it was uncovered by French Napoleonic troops in Egypt in 1799, it was seized by the ...