Was the Phoenician writing system a true alphabet? If not, what should it be called instead, and what was the earliest true ...

Pharaoh’s Animal Kingdom, a new exhibition for children at the Israel Museum, explores the relationship between animals and ...

They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are ...

Jean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier says he has identified seven sets of crypto-hieroglyphs on the 75-foot-tall structure, which ...

But even though we cannot decipher the text, it is still possible to analyze the hell out of it. The manuscript has been found to follow Zipf's law, a law that appears to be followed by all known ...

An ancient Egyptian obelisk is revealing its long-lost secrets—all thanks to the keen eye of a local Egyptologist. After ...

The Mycenaean civilization was the first advanced culture of mainland Greece, shaping the foundations of Greek identity, myth, and language.

The main pieces of evidence supporting the hydraulic theory were the discovery of a "dry moat" surrounding the pyramid, as well as a massive stone structure known as the Gisr el-Mudir. These features ...

The executive director of PA Humanities said the massive cuts will wipe out library, arts and civic programs across the ...

Long before the “A, B, C Song” — built upon the Latin alphabet — and the alphas, betas and gammas of Ancient Greek, cultures around the world were communicating with one another.

Families can expect a historical treat with two shows, Terrible Tudors and Awful Egyptians, at Truro's Hall for Cornwall.

The obelisk is covered in hieroglyphics—the ancient Egyptians’ pictorial writing system—and engraved ... considered a language of the gods.” Olette-Pelletier got to see the Concorde ...