In ancient Rome and Greece, graffiti took the form of inscriptions on public buildings and monuments ... Artists developed intricate styles, such as "wildstyle," characterized by complex, interlocking ...

PPAMPicture / Getty Images The Ancient Graffiti Project, a research team that has included around 70 people over the past several years to locate and study graffiti from the early Roman Empire ...

There's graffiti basically everywhere, worldwide — and it isn't some new phenomenon that arose with the invention of spray paint. In fact, we, as a species, have been drawing stuff on walls for fun ...

Graffiti has ancient origins, with some of the earliest ... usually consisting of two or three colors and involving larger letters that are easier to execute quickly. "Pieces," short for ...

Its publication was an extraordinary event, a landmark in the evolving intellectual and cultural landscape of post-Independence Sri Lanka. Although it was known that there were scrawled ancient ...

Or, there are short inscriptions written in an ancient version of the Greek alphabet, consisting of names, captions, and messages. The shapes of the letters suggest that the graffiti dates back to ...

Graffiti carved on ancient standing stones on the island of Arran is a heritage crime, Historic Environment Scotland has said. Staff from Scotland's heritage agency found the markings at Machrie ...

The New Forest National Park Authority (NPA) said while urban graffiti is seen as a blight, "ancient scribblings are a window into the past". Visitors are being encouraged to record any sightings ...