Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) professor Enrique Jiménez has used AI to decipher a 1,000-year-old ancient hymn singing ...

A billionaire has unveiled a private collection of ancient Egyptian vases he believes could rewrite history. The artifacts ...

Archaologists are stunned after discovering what they believe could be an ancient city under the pyramids of Giza. A vast, prehistoric city buried beneath the Pyramids of Giza. It’s an extraordinary ...

From deciphering burnt Roman scrolls to reading crumbling cuneiform tablets, neural networks could give researchers more data than they’ve had in centuries. In October 2023, an e-mail pinged ...

Even after intense analysis, the ancient language on the so-called Bashplemi tablet still evades researchers. Fishermen in Dmanisi, Georgia discovered the tablet in Lake Bashplemi in 2021.

Archaeologists in Georgia's Bashplemi Lake region have unearthed a basalt tablet bearing an unknown script, possibly dating back to the Bronze Age. The tablet, similar in size to an iPad, features ...

Epigraphs written in Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Middle Persian have been uncovered in the ancient capital of Mtskheta, 20 kilometers (about 12 miles) north of the country's current capital, Tbilisi.

A stone tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments that was carved anywhere between 300 to 800 A.D. will go on the block at Sotheby’s next week, the auction house said.

A few years ago, fishermen in the Dmanisi municipality of Georgia discovered a stone tablet inscribed with a mysterious language —a script that has the potential to upend the history of ancient ...

Experts are still puzzling over a basalt stone tablet more than three years after discovering it near Lake Bashplemi in Georgia. According to their recent study published in the Journal of Ancient ...

Imago Mundi in 2024. ( British Museum) In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have deciphered what is believed to be the world's oldest map--a 3,000-year-old Babylonian clay tablet that may reveal ...

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