With so many ancient texts around the world, you might wonder which alphabet was the first to be developed. In other words, ...

The "Dead Sea Scrolls" exhibit, announced at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, features ancient Jewish ...

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From spring to early summer, Newfoundland and Labrador is among the best places in the world for iceberg hunting.

Were the Hittites of the Bible the same as those of the Hittite Empire? While this is a common assumption, what do the facts ...

Since the late 1800s, women have studied Ancient Egypt, but it wasn't always easy to enter the profession. Here are 8 ...

We often take written language for granted– whether it’s texting, reading a book, or scrolling through social media, it’s a part of everyday life. But imagine a time when there were no books, no ...

The rich history of ancient Egypt involves power struggles, amazing feats of engineering, advances in writing and art, and ...

ProtoSnap uses computer vision to scan the pixels in a picture of a cuneiform table and compares them to a series of ...

Instead of referring to sounds in an essentially arbitrary way, pictures refer to the world. As such, they require no ...

The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom in the temple of Philae is the last known use of hieroglyphs in ancient Egypt, but why did they stop being used?

While teaching humans about their ancient civilizations may seem like an odd job for artificial intelligence, it has ...