New research led by Associate Professor Willemijn Waal suggests that the Greek alphabet may have originated centuries earlier ...

BREWSTER COUNTY, Texas — An archaeological site in the Big Bend region of West Texas unveiled a trove of ancient weapons, making it “potentially the oldest example of an intact full weapon system in ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a Minoan ivory scepter with the longest Linear A inscription in the Anetaki area of Knossos.

A collection of artefacts collected 2,500 years ago in modern-day Iraq reveal the forgotten world of Mesopotamia, home to ...

Discover the Imago Mundi, the 2,600-year-old Babylonian world map from Sippar, Iraq. Learn how it blends geography, myth & ...

Imagine being able to travel back thousands of years, not with a time machine, but through the words our ancestors spoke. It ...

Professor Kulakoglu explains that many of the words, although Assyrian in origin -- a Semitic language considered an ancestor ...

Some recipes recorded 4,000 years ago by humans appear to have similarities to a modern cuisine, and a few ingredients have ...

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan ...

Ancient instructions for making food often didn't have weights ... archaeologists struggled to translate the cuneiform script ...

While not all merchant or artisan organizations in the ancient world are best labeled as guilds, a comparative examination of merchant guilds can allow us to better identify guilds and similar ...