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

The papyrus details the prosecution of two main defendants: Gadalias, a notary’s son and something of an ancient Roman “bad ...

Making history palatable for schoolchildren isn’t easy – but the work that’s gone into this imaginative show on ancient Egypt ...

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 Indus Valley script has baffled experts for over a century, its meaning lost to time. Now, the Indian government is ...

Prosecutors have asked a federal judge to give the Democrat 15 years behind bars for crimes that include acting as an agent of the Egyptian government. Menendez’s lawyers say he deserves less ...

3,000-year-old writing boards with school notes and math exercises, ornate sarcophaguses, and towering stone slabs, known as stelas, containing government edicts in hieroglyphs. Kate McMahon/Travel + ...

IN this volume, the seventh of the series that Col. Waddell has devoted to the exposition of his views on the origin and relations of the great civilisations of antiquity, the author aims at ...

Nitrogen isotope analysis of tooth enamel reveals no evidence of meat consumption in Australopithecus. New research published in the journal Science suggests that early human ancestors, such as ...

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Egyptian zodiac signs originate from ancient Egyptian astrology, often linked to the deities and their influence on life. Nick Brundle Photography / Getty Images ...

The scientists documented the differences between the two modes of writing. Neither mode approximated real life conditions. The students were instructed to write in cursive without lifting the stylus ...