The 4,000-year-old Linear Elamite script from what is now Iran has long eluded archaeologists hoping to unlock the secrets of ...

A new exhibition at the National Museum in Damascus traces the evolution of writing in Syria, from prehistoric symbols carved ...

Ancient tablets reveal magic, kings, and daily life, offering new insight into early civilizations over 4,000 years ago.

A new book explores ancient letters about kings, pleas for help from a bereft mother, classroom exercises and ancient doodles ...

Decoded cuneiform tablets reveal early societies’ magic, politics, and bureaucracy, including rare rituals, king lists, and ...

First-year students create interactive 3D and 2D replicas of historical objects to be presented during Imagine RIT.

A small clay tablet has offered a remarkably human glimpse into life 4,000 years ago. Researchers studying ancient ...

For the first time ever, the researchers deciphered these cryptic glyphs, finding, among other things, a 4,000-year-old ...

For centuries, the exact whereabouts of William Shakespeare's only known London property has been one of the most tantalizing unsolved puzzles in literary history. Now, a discovery by a King's College ...

The specific tablet that has caused such excitement is a school text listing kings who ruled at the end of the third millennium BC. Other known copies of this same royal list also include Gilgamesh, ...

Ancient cuneiform tablets at Denmark's National Museum may prove that Sumerian hero Gilgamesh was a real historical ruler.