My brother’s text messages can read like fragments of an ancient code: “hru,” “wyd,” “plz” – truncated, cryptic and never ...

Painted relief of the goddess Maat, New York Metropolitan Museum of Art ...

A family cleaning their backyard in New Orleans discovered an unusual marble tablet with some characters in Latin. Daniella ...

The plague theory emerged primarily from ancient texts rather than physical evidence. Hittite plague prayers from the late 14th century BC describe a devastating epidemic that allegedly originated ...

The plague of Akhetaten has long been cited as a possible explanation for the mysterious abandonment of ancient Egypt's short ...

In 1976, during the excavation of a subway extension in Toronto, a city worker discovered unusual looking antlers with "thick ...

Archaeologists have uncovered Aramaic inscriptions at the ancient city of Zernaki Tepe, Turkey, written in the language once ...

More than 450 years ago, its contents were said to implicate Mary Queen of Scots in the conspiracy to murder her second ...

A newly deciphered Herculaneum scroll, revealed through Pulsed Thermography, exposes fresh details about the Greek origins of ...

"Over the past half millennium, the world has continually studied China, driven by cultural curiosity, economic interests, political ambitions, and ideological conflicts. Yet in every instance, ...

From thunder gods to serpent slayers, scholars are reconstructing myths that vanished millennia ago. How much further can we ...