While still a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, UC Santa Cruz professor Elaine Sullivan unearthed ancient ...

One immediately notices that Ancient Greek writing exclusively used uppercase letters, without any lowercase ones. This ...

The most advanced way that we communicate, through the written word, is something that animals simply can’t do at all. This ...

An exhibit at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., entitled "Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya," highlighted the ...

Learn more about the papyrus that contains detailed medical procedures from Ancient Egypt.

In response to discussions about affirmative consent laws, and the need to demonstrate consent has been sought and given, ...

For example, by studying people's names, word choice and writing styles ... Mesopotamia, with its dense network of ancient cities in the fertile plains along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers ...

Archaeologists in Norway have discovered fragments of the world’s oldest rune stone in Svingerud burial field, dating back to 50 BC–275 AD.

Writing on PHerc. 172 papyrus, found at Roman mansion in Herculaneum, revealed after 3D X-rays and software competition ...

To decipher a script, the following subproblems have to be solved in order, Italian philologist Fabio Tamburini wrote in 2023 (Decipherment of Lost Ancient Scripts as Combinatorial Optimisation using ...

The Indian state of Tamil Nadu is offering a $1 million bounty to experts who can successfully interpret the Indus Valley ...