Greece's second largest city, Thessaloniki, is getting a brand new subway system that will showcase archaeological ...

In Germany’s Blätterhöhle cave, students and archaeologists uncovered a 9,000-year-old fireplace and prehistoric weapons, ...

Four clay cylinders inscribed with what might be the oldest known evidence of alphabetic writing are 500 years older than other early alphabets, according to new research.

BCE clay cylinders with oldest known alphabetic writing were uncovered in Syria, challenging the origins of the alphabet.

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

Her elaborate burial and title indicate that she held a significant position in the ancient Egyptian court. She was laid to ...

Long ago, the colors of fabrics were more than just fashion statements. They were a nonverbal form of communication that ...

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

Who Were the Buried Bodies in the Petra Chamber? Both adults and children are part of the human remains - but researchers ...

Both sides of the bronze pendant feature inscriptions in ancient Greek ... archaeological layer where they found the pendant, the archaeologists dated the artifact to the fifth century, when ...

The Meggido mosaic holds the earliest inscription ever found that the first Christians believed Jesus to be God.