Phanagoria's 1st century BCE synagogue was discovered last year, following excavations on the ancient Greek city.

A 2,300-year-old tomb in southwest Turkey—once revered as a holy Islamic site—turns out to be the tomb of ancient Greek boxer ...

This ancient symbol, also called the Staff of Hermes, depicts two snakes intertwining around a stick that is capped by wings.

Gemstones, valued for their beauty and rarity, also held deep spiritual and cultural significance in ancient civilizations.

The Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, was a Greek engineering marvel that guided ships ...

It was used in the worship of the goddess Hathor, mythological... The Dongba symbols are an ancient system of pictographic glyphs created by the founder of the Bön religious tradition of Tibet and ...

A new paper has confirmed and refined an inscription long thought impossible to pin down – and it seems to be a dedication to ...

A professor has confirmed what the ancient inscription on the statue says, which reveals the statue's purpose.

Recent archaeological excavations have uncovered a basalt tablet with inscriptions in an unknown language near Lake Bashplemi ...

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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.

Now, a team from the University of Bologna in Italy has linked symbols on ancient Mesopotamian seals with an archaic visual communication system called proto-cuneiform; an art form which would in time ...