Experts Stumble on First-Ever Zodiac Symbol of Goat-Fish Carving in Egyptian Rock Art, Identify It as Capricornus A rare ...

For over 3,000 years, ancient Egypt was one of the most powerful civilizations on Earth, with an empire stretching across ...

Archaeological discoveries indicate that alphabetic writing dates back 500 years earlier than previously believed. What ...

A finger-sized clay cylinder from a tomb in northern Syria appears to be the oldest example of writing using an alphabet ...

At an archaeological excavation site in western Syria, Schwartz unearthed a “finger-length” clay cylinder with etched ...

Ancient Egypt is one of the world's most iconic civilizations, known for its awe-inspiring achievements and innovations.

Mesopotamian trade symbols may be origins of proto-cuneiform. Cylinder seals linked trade to early script development. Study shows transition from trade symbols to structured writing.

Anthropologists have spent decades documenting a mysterious collection of symbols etched into the Peruvian desert, depicting everything from human decapitation and domesticated animals to knife ...

Thousands of years ago, our ancestors used symbols to track the sale of textile and agricultural products. New research suggests that these markings informed the development of writing Sarah Kuta ...

From gladiators to vomitoriums, delve into Rome’s most persistent myths and find out what really happened. A conservationist restores a Roman bust. Many Roman statues appear starkly white today.

Researchers discovered the burial chamber of the ancient Egyptian priestess Idy, daughter of the regional governor Djefaihapi I, in a previously inaccessible section of his monumental tomb from ...

The site is located inside the South Asasif necropolis in the city of Luxor, the location of several ancient temples and ruins including the tomb of Tutankhamun and a major hotspot for Egyptian ...