In the remote wilderness of Ontario, a small stone etched with strange symbols has sparked renewed debate among historians ...

The collapse of American global power was more pointedly represented by Dahn Vo’s In God We Trust: the American flag, with ...

Archaeologists in Norway recently made a stunning discovery while excavating a gravesite: the oldest datable runestone ever ...

Grammatography : a manual of reference to the alphabets of ancient and modern languages by Ballhorn, Friedrich, 1803-1876. Publication date 1861 Topics Alphabet Publisher London : Trübner and co.

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.

At the Iraqi Site of Assur, Ancient History Stands at Risk of Destruction. In its time, the Assyrian capital faced waves of invasions and abandonment.

But first, a bit about its history: Founded in 427 AD, Nalanda was an extraordinary centre of learning for seven centuries, ...

Perhaps the most well-known of the lost Greek letters is Digamma. Shaped like an F or a modern-day gamma with an extra stem, ...

Ancient alphabets and hieroglyphic characters explained; with an account of the Egyptian priests, their classes, initiation, and sacrifices by Ibn Waḥshīyah, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, active 9th century. n ...

Cats Domesticated Themselves, Ancient DNA Shows. A comprehensive survey of cat genes suggests that even after felines wandered into our lives, they remained largely unchanged for thousands of years.

What's On; Travel; Vale of Glamorgan; Welsh seaside town with cobbled streets and an ancient pub features in Death Valley Viewers of the show may have spotted this Vale of Glamorgan seaside town ...

A new analysis of Dead Sea Scrolls that paired radiocarbon dating with AI has determined many of the biblical manuscripts are older than once thought.