New sites and artifacts are found all the time, revealing forgotten secrets of the past. Learn more about some recent ...

The researchers methodically compared the designs they found on ancient cylinder seals with known proto-cuneiform signs. The ...

Historians studying a letter written by King Otto I of Germany to his wife Queen Edith have believed the piece was written in ...

Ancient Cypriot writing was found on a wall dating from the 6th century BC at an archeological dig in Palaepaphos, the ...

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

In the early 2000s, archaeologists excavating a tomb at Tell Umm-el Marra, a site 35 miles east of Aleppo, Syria, discovered ...

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

With its stunning hilltop view of Lesbos across Aegean waters, the ancient city of Assos makes for a thrilling travel ...

Recent research has led to new conclusions about the origin of writing with important new understanding on human cognitive ...

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

Several decades ago, a national park was declared for some fifty square miles surrounding Troy and UNESCO declared it a World ...

An archaeological dig in Palaepaphos has revealed an intriguing inscription of ancient Cypriot writing on a wall from the 6th ...