Geography is destiny for nations, and history the proof. The Greeks saw the physical world as an encircling environment (a word we take from the Old French viron, circuit). The Romans applied Greek ...

A University of Southampton led project, exploring how people of antiquity viewed the geography of the ancient world, has been backed by $50,000 of funding from Google, Inc. via its Digital Humanities ...

IN a series of papers published between 1944 and 1948, Prof. E Stechow, of Munich, seeks to show that a much larger area of the world's surface was known in antiquity than is commonly supposed. His ...

An international team of researchers has used knowledge of historical geography to reexamine the earliest datable total solar ...

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 recently ...

The Classical Review publishes informative reviews from leading scholars on new work covering the literatures and civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome. Publishing over 150 high quality reviews and ...

The Congo River is the world's only major river to cross the Equator twice, a rare feat shaped by ancient geological forces.

THE principal difficulty in the study of Indian antiquities has always been the absence of a chronological framework. The Indians themselves had no idea of what we mean by history. They possessed a ...

New archaeological evidence is helping rewrite old myths about disabled people in the ancient world.