Archaeologists have uncovered a rare gold artifact inscribed with ancient Greek text dedicated to Jupiter at a Roman fortress ...

The way ancient Greeks chose their names is a fascinating story that reveals a lot about their ideals, beliefs and familial relationships that have changed but are still relevant in contemporary Greek ...

While ancient Greece is one of the best known cultures of antiquity, there are no surviving historical narratives covering ...

The house and school are about 322 kilometres west of the Nile River in the ancient town of Trimithis ... to work hard and ...

writing and speaking modern Greek with gusto. Finally, the French archaeologist Fanette Laubenheimer, on whose site, Sallèles-d’Aude, I worked as a volunteer excavator when I was a teenager interested ...

The world’s oldest known writing system may have had its origins in the imagery on decorated cylinders used to denote ownership or record transactions. Some of the symbols on these cylinder ...

Researchers from the University of Bologna have unveiled how ancient cylinder seals played a key role in the development of writing in ancient Mesopotamia, marking a significant breakthrough in ...

Nov. 7, 2024 — Researchers have used ancient DNA to challenge long-held interpretations of the people of Pompeii. Contrary to physical appearances, the DNA evidence revealed unexpected ...

However, over the centuries many inscriptions have been damaged to the point of illegibility, transported far from their original location, and their date of writing is steeped in uncertainty. We ...

It also functioned like an early form of branding to identify institutions, the senders of goods or the destinations of the products as they made their way around ancient societies in modern day Iran, ...