The priests of the only entirely Christian town in the West Bank issued a joint appeal for an end to “the ongoing and grave ...

EDUCATION to an ordinary person means no more than the process of passing across and imbibing or learning the practices, ways ...

Researchers report that AI deciphered the Hammurabi tablet at 98% accuracy, opening the door to translating ancient cuneiform ...

These gingerbread tablets are SUPER DELICIOUS and the perfect ancient eat for something modern. The Epic of Gilgamesh is believed to be the oldest piece of literature in the world, and tells the story ...

Examine the ancient Greek slave classes and their role in maintaining the economy. How they were represented in art and ...

Experts in London have spent three months piecing together the shattered remains of Roman artworks, revealing luxurious frescoes not seen for more than 1,800 years.

Instead of writing on clay tablets or papyrus, as other ancient societies did, the Incas recorded information by tying knots into long cords they called khipus.

Found at the Dodona oracle site in Epirus, more than 4,000 lead tablets reveal everyday concerns, from love and illness to theft and freedom, at Greece’s oldest oracle. In the quiet hills of Epirus in ...

Imagine being able to travel back thousands of years, not with a time machine, but through the words our ancestors spoke. It sounds almost magical, yet this is precisely what some scientists are doing ...

Fragment of a Neo-Assyrian tablet preserving wax, in the British Museum. ( The Trustees of the British Museum) The writing boards excavated from Nimrud (modern Iraq) represent the first material ...

The writing boards not only provide insight into Assyrian scribal practices but also highlight early techniques that show surprising similarities to later Greek and Roman writing practices. The study, ...