British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans purchased some ancient stones with mysterious inscriptions on them at a flea market in ...

On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

The Ancient Greek Dark Ages came after the powerful Mycenaean Era. But what actually were the Greek Dark Ages, and how did ...

We know what ancient life was like, in part, because people wrote about it. The Sumerians developed cuneiform, the first known writing system, which was eventually used by many languages and ...

A century ago, UChicago scholars argued a controversial idea: Western civilization had its roots in ... the mysteries of cuneiform—the world’s oldest writing system. First developed in Sumer, an ...

Climate change, invasions, and economic decline contributed to the collapse of Mediterranean Bronze Age civilizations.

In the 1850s, cuneiform was just a series of baffling scratches on clay, waiting to spill the secrets of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia By Joshua Hammer Some citizens and archaeologists ...

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 ...

A prize offered by an Indian state leader is intended to shed light on a Bronze Age civilization — and settle a cultural ...

The enigmatic Indus Valley civilization left behind a script ... Commons “We have not been able to clearly understand the writing system of the once flourishing Indus Valley,” says M.K ...