Archaeologists discovered a basalt tablet about the size of a piece of paper bearing 60 unknown script characters expertly ...

New research continues to uncover the complexities of Soknopaiou Nesos, focusing on its difficult Demotic texts and the ...

When people think of ancient civilizations, their minds often drift to the best pyramids of ancient Egypt or the Roman ruins and structures still in use today. Yet scattered across the pages of ...

The tablet could predate the earliest known evidence of writing in the Caucasus region by over a thousand years, hinting at a ...

Many ancient board games have been discovered, but there are no rulebooks so we don't know how to play them. Now AI is ...

A mysterious tablet discovered in Georgia might upend our knowledge of ancient writings in the Caucasus region. Carved into ...

INDEX: Nubia When discussing the civilisations of the Nile Valley, many histories focus almost exclusively on the role of Egypt. But this approach ignores the emergence further so ...

The slab’s text follows traditional Christian and Jewish biblical verses, though without the third commandment admonishing ...

A stone tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments that was carved anywhere between 300 to 800 A.D. will go on the block at ...

An extraordinary discovery in Georgia might completely change the way we understand ancient civilizations. A mysterious 3,000 ...

Alistair Sooke visits 30 great treasures of Egyptian art, some in Egypt either in situ or in the Cairo Museum, others in museums elsewhere.