The ancient sites finally revealing the secrets of a long-lost Stone Age civilization - The civilization, now known as the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a Minoan ivory scepter with the longest Linear A inscription in the Anetaki area of Knossos.

This dog-shaped vessel was likely used for pouring wine, oil or blood in ancient rituals in what is now Italy.

A collection of artefacts collected 2,500 years ago in modern-day Iraq reveal the forgotten world of Mesopotamia, home to ...

Imagine being able to travel back thousands of years, not with a time machine, but through the words our ancestors spoke. It ...

The "Eye of Horus," a depiction of a single stylized eye looking straight ahead, is found throughout ancient Egypt. The ...

offering the earliest known example of cuneiform writing on wax. These ancient boards, uncovered in the ruins of Nimrud in present-day Iraq, date back to the 7th century BCE. The writing boards not ...

Despite the fact that the decipherment of ancient writing systems is considered ... transforming them into impenetrable sets of unreadable symbols. Moreover, before their decipherments, they were ...

making it possibly the oldest solar calendar in ancient civilization. Marking a massive comet strike as the start, inhabitants used symbols to record every astronomical event, including those as ...