Researchers recently found one of the many lost Holy Land cities in Jordan. The team used maps and field surveys to identify the site. Experts believe the lost city Tharais wasn’t just an agricultural ...

Archaeologists have located Tharais, a lost Byzantine city featured on the 6th-century Madaba Mosaic Map in Jordan. The ...

I love trying to figure out the age of old maps. If there’s a globe in someone’s house, or if I find an old map in a thrift store, I look for clues—the existence of the Soviet Union, if ...

A Clue Hidden in a 400-Year-Old Map Might Have Just Solved One of America’s Greatest Mysteries. ... the English explorer, even though Raleigh himself never set foot on the land.

The release of a seven decades-old map thought to indicate where Nazi soldiers stashed millions of Euros in treasure during World War II has set off a wild treasure hunt in the Netherlands — … ...

A 400-year-old map showing parts of York as they were in the early 17th Century has gone on public display. Samuel Parson's 1624 map of Dringhouses and the Knavesmire is one of the oldest in York ...