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

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

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

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 ... Their proto-writing system formed ...

The site, called Tell Umm el-Marra was an important urban center in Syria and one of the first to ever pop up in the region.

A bunch of fishermen in the Dmanisi region of Georgia picked up an unexpected catch recently when they hauled in a stone ...

During excavation at the South Asasif necropolis near Luxor, the team uncovered the remains of 11 individuals, including five ...

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

The Rosetta Stone is famous around the world for having served as the key to deciphering the ancient Egyptian language and hieroglyphic script. The largest Egyptian sculpture in the British Museum ...

Groundbreaking research has revealed that an ancient Egyptian "Bes mug," a vessel dating back 2,000 years, was last used to ...

First discovered in 2004 but confirmed thanks to recent carbon dating, researchers found the world's oldest alphabet in a Syrian tomb.

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