Evidence of textile workshops demonstrates that girls’ labour was valued enough to be documented in administrative records ...

Paper, invented in China around the 2nd century BCE, did not spread to the rest of the world until much later, as it remained ...

For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

Bad dreams scared the ancient Egyptians, who feared that evil spirits or demons would visit them in their sleep. The oldest recorded nightmare dates back 4,000 years, when writing letters to ...

Ancient Egypt in North Africa was one of the most powerful and influential civilizations in the region for over 3,000 years, from around 3100 B.C to 30 B.C. It left behind numerous monuments ...

In 1862, an American antiquities dealer was in an Egyptian marketplace, squinting at a scroll. The scroll was written in hieratic, a type of ancient Egyptian cursive, and the dealer, Edwin Smith, wasn ...

New Study Finds Ancient Egyptian Scribes Suffered Back Pain Just Like Us Joint issues were caused by hours spent bent over papyrus. Relief depicting two scribes from Mastaba of Akhethotep at ...

The ancient Egyptians documented everything from prayers to proclamations to taxes, and it seems the task of writing it all down left its marks on the bones of the kingdom’s scribes.

Ancient Egyptian scribes’ life works are written on their bones. Arthritis and other damage mark the scribes’ skeletons where the men sat cross-legged or kneeled hunched over papyrus scrolls ...

Ancient Egyptians might have understood an occupational hazard of today’s office workers: an achy back and neck. That’s according to an analysis of the skeletons of scribes, who would have sat ...

The earliest known recollection of Jesus' childhood was discovered at a university library in Germany. The 2,000-year-old ...