This Ancient Egyptian Map To The Underworld Is The Oldest Illustrated Book Ever Found. ... Even those who know little of ...

A new study published in the recent issue of the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, has documented the oldest funerary map in Ancient Egypt. It was found in the necropolis of Dayr al-Barsha, in the ...

Researchers have discovered what is thought to be the first known map of the night sky, written over 2,000 years ago. ... a collection of ancient texts found in Sinai, Egypt, ...

It’s part of the 10th- or 11th-century A.D. Codex Climaci Rescriptus, a collection of parchments from St. Catherine’s monastery in Egypt with monastic writings in Syriac, an ancient language ...

The World’s Oldest Map of the Stars, ... Previously, antiquity’s only known surviving star catalogue came from Claudius Ptolemy of Egypt, who worked in the second century C.E.

The honor of Egypt’s oldest necropolis belongs to Pharaoh Djoser, a ruler who ushered in the Old Kingdom’s Third Dynasty during the 27th century BCE. Constructed around 2,680 BCE in Saqqara ...

A fragment of the world’s first star map was discovered hidden on a medieval Greek manuscript at St. Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. Researchers believe that the segment ...