kept business accounts and described their conquests and ambitions in inscriptions on pots, plaques and walls. The surviving text gives historians a rare glimpse of life in those times—but most of the ...

Four-line Aramaic text, one of the few legible inscriptions from the era, may be tied to the Bar Kochba Revolt. The words ...

Google has launched Aeneas, a new tool designed to help historians contextualize and restore ancient Roman texts.

Archaeologists have discovered a millennia-old clay seal in Jerusalem which may be linked to an ancient curse. The clay seal, ...

If you had something important to write down in ancient times, you would usually write in Greek in the eastern Mediterranean.

How we have honoured the dead through millennia? Take a look at some of the earliest such memorials found around the world.

A magnificent ancient Greek mosaic discovered in Hatay, Turkey continues to amaze archaeologists and historians.

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Nishijinori, the intricate weaving for kimonos that dates back more than a thousand years in Japan's ancient capital of Kyoto ...