This is the Rosetta Stone. It is made from granite and it has three sets of inscriptions carved into ... and everyday life. The ancient Egyptians also used papyrus and writing boards to keep ...

The stone's Ogham script is believed to have been carved sometime between the 4th ... The team said Ogham was highly unusual among world writing systems, consisting solely of parallel lines ...

One of the earliest writing systems in the world may have been influenced by symbols engraved on ancient “cylinder seals.” ...

The early writing appears to date to around 2400 B.C.—preceding the previous most bygone examples by roughly 500 years.

The origins of writing in Mesopotamia lie in the images imprinted by ancient cylinder seals on clay ... Typically made of stone and engraved with a series of designs, these cylinders were rolled ...

The stone lintels bearing intricate religious designs were created hundreds of years ago Two ancient sandstone carvings, believed to have been stolen from Thailand and smuggled to the US during ...

U.S. customs officials in Miami on Tuesday said they seized ancient carved stones from Cameroon known as Ikom monoliths ... According to UNESCO the carvings "bear a form of writing and a complex ...