The collection of funerary texts are inscribed in Meroitic, one of Africa's earliest written languages ... This is the first time archaeologists have found a depiction of Maat with black African ...

A huge cache of stone inscriptions from one of Africa's oldest written languages have been unearthed in a vast "city of the dead" in Sudan. The inscriptions are written in the obscure 'Meroitic ...

A series of carvings found on a pillar of limestone in the mountains of southern Turkey could be the world's oldest written language ... of Peten in north-west Guatemala. Using digital scanning ...

A new article in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution adds to our understanding with a study of the oldest directly dated archaeological site in West Africa. The site shows technological ...