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

A mysterious stone slab engraved with Nordic runes has been discovered deep in the Canadian wilderness, puzzling archaeologists.

In the early 20th century, architects turned to a newly discovered past to craft novel visions of the future: the ancient history of Mesopotamia. Eva Miller traces how both the mythology of Babel and ...

We encounter symbols constantly—in road signs, packaging, technology, clothing, and even gestures. While many seem obvious at ...

The symbols were laid down in the late Stone Age, or Neolithic Age. They predate the earliest recorded writings from Mesopotamia - in what is now Iraq - by more than 2,000 years. The archaeologists ...

Using artificial intelligence and radiocarbon dating to determine the age of ancient manuscripts. Since their discovery, the ...

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, ...

A gold shilling located by a metal detectorist near Norwich may be no larger than a fingernail, but it wields quite a bit of history—and some distinct designs. The small gold coin discovered in the ...

A wooden hunter’s toolbox inscribed with an ancient writing system from Zambia has been making waves on social media. "We've grown up being told that Africans didn't know how to read and write ...

Like Roman numerals, their system borrowed letters; like the Arabic numerals we still use, it only needed one symbol for each decimal place. In the 6th century BCE, the Greek alphabet used 24 letters.

This is an apt description for the Latin alphabet, the Greek alphabet, and many others around the world. However, many writing systems in the ancient world did not work like this. Some of them did not ...