Archaeologists are piecing together the world’s oldest known rune stone. It could shed light on the origins of early written Germanic languages and who inscribed it.

The Bahra 1 site, where the statues were found, has been a focal point for research on ancient Stone Age societies ... which spread in its heyday from Mesopotamia to Anatolia and the Arabian ...

These stone “cylinder seals” helped our ancestors ... was invented around 3100 B.C.E. in Mesopotamia. Before cuneiform, however, humans used a simpler writing system called proto-cuneiform ...

Lapis lazuli, valued like gold, has a rich 6,000-year history. Its primary source is Afghanistan's Badakhshan province, where ...