Ancient scripts like Linear A and Rongorongo are among the mysterious undeciphered languages that continue to puzzle ...

At first, the archaeologists assumed the images came from Homer’s Iliad, the best-known account of the war. The scenes seemed ...

An ancient historian at the University of Leicester has found that the Rutland mosaic presents a version of the Trojan War that differs from the story told in Homer’s Iliad. Researchers studying what ...

Long before Cleopatra and Hatshepsut, Ankhnespepy II amassed unprecedented political and religious power. Here's how.

PROVIDENCE — No less ancient a text than the Gospel of Luke might explain the feeling we’ll encounter Saturday afternoon at Amica Mutual Pavilion. Men’s basketball fans from Providence College and the ...

"Some of our ancestors were very skilled observers." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A team of international researchers say they ...

In the earliest text written in Marathi, a language of millions in western and central India, a 13th-century religious figure named Cakradhara points to an acacia tree as a symbol of the cycle of ...

Examination of an ancient alabaster vase in the Yale Peabody Museum's Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opiates, providing the clearest evidence to date of broad opium use in ancient ...

A fragment of a cuneiform seal that’s now the first direct evidence of official communication between the kingdoms of Judah and Assyria has emerged at an archaeological site in Israel. According to ...

What’s the first thing you notice when you step into a museum? Is it the long-faded colors of ancient artifacts from all around the world or the hushed sounds of visitors discussing what they see?

Archaeologists working in northern Egypt uncovered a tablet rivaling the Rosetta Stone in its importance to decoding ancient language. Trnava University via Unsplash When Napoleon’s army accidentally ...