There is not a ton of evidence of what education looked like in ancient society, but we do know it existed - although not for ...

VAN, 12 November (BelTA - Anadolu) - Archaeologists in Van uncovered 42 large storage jars, known as pithoi, marked with cuneiform inscriptions that were used during the Urartian period for storing ...

Symbols found on 6,000-year-old clay cylinders used by ancient accountants may have paved way to earliest form of writing a ...

The history of human writing is being rewritten after archaeologists found the origins of words engraved on 6,000-year-old ...

SHIRAZ - The National Museum of Iran inaugurated the exhibition “Elam: The Dawn of Iranian Civilization” at the Persepolis ...

When we talk about a phalanx in a military context, we automatically think of Alexander the Great’s Macedonian army, with its ...

This week, uncover the secrets of Pompeii through ancient DNA, meet an adventurous emperor penguin, seek signs of mysterious ...

Researchers have uncovered links between the precursor to the world's oldest writing system and the mysterious, intricate ...

Italian researchers suggest that symbols from the oldest writing system in the world may have come directly from cylinder seal motifs.

Avian enthusiast Emil Schachtzabel (1850-1941) was fascinated by the wide variety of hybrid pigeon breeds that fanciers ...

In the half-dark of a third-floor office, Danielle Levy lifted a clay tablet out of its box. Carefully examining it with ...

Cylinder seals and proto-cuneiform acted as the accounting system for ancient Mesopotamia in one of the earliest invented ...