Explore how geography, in particular the sea, shaped ancient Greece's agricultural practices, approach to trade and warfare, and colonial expansion.

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

‘Strabo’s Geography’ Review: An Ancient Atlas Writing in the age of Augustus, the well-traveled Greek geographer Strabo produced a guide to the known world that melded observation and myth.

Divers have spent decades exploring Greece's ancient Antikythera wreck. The latest expedition found relics and retrieved ...

A geography teacher found an ancient stone in his backyard garden back in 2020. After reporting his find, he worked to dig up more answers behind its history, and recently found out more details.

There's no denying that Google Maps makes it easy to navigate a city, but people who use it do lose some spatial awareness. When researchers set people loose with either paper or digital maps as a ...

THE want of a short, popular history of classical geography is one which has been long felt, and there is no doubt that the little volume before us will help to fill it. The great work by the late ...

Researchers have uncovered the fossils of numerous extinct sea creatures that lived hundreds of millions of years ago—and they could help solve an ancient geographical puzzle, according to a ...

A map of the ancient world as described by the geographer Strabo.© Science History Images/Alamy ‘Strabo’s Geography’ Review: An Ancient Atlas© Science History Images/Alamy ...