They're ancient and almost impossible to read but Selena Wisnom has deciphered enough Cuneiform to show just how similar life was for our ancient ancestors.

Rows of tiny crosses and dots run along the flank of a mammoth no bigger than your palm. Someone carved it from a tusk around ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Open Access Initiative expands with three-dimensional renderings of significant pieces—most of which are free to download.

Until now it was thought that writing developed in Mesopotamia around 3,000 BCE, followed by hieroglyphics in Egypt and later in China and Mesoamerica. "The Stone Age sign sequences are an early ...

Researchers have found patterns of meaning etched in lines, notches, dots and crosses on ancient objects, including mammoth tusks dating as far back as 45,000 years, within caves in Germany.

The oldest blue textile in Anatolia has been found in Turkey, preserved for 4,000 years by a surprising accidental fire.

The head of the museum at Persepolis on Thursday marked the memory of professor Abdolmajid Arfa’i, an Elamite scholar and researcher of ancient Elamite and Akkadian languages, who died on Wednesday at ...

A customer filing a complaint for being dissatisfied with the received product or even the treatment in the transaction is not unusual in our time. But it wasn’t uncommon in Antiquity either, even ...

What does it take to manage 75,000 archival documents or a $10m Shakespeare folio? Meet the women at the helm of British heritage ...

Sutak Kaal for the Chandra Grahan has begun, signaling the start of religious observances ahead of the lunar eclipse. Follow for exact eclipse timings, peak phase details, and region-wise visibility ...

The ancient Egyptians built temples that lasted thousands of years, and one of them happens to be in San Jose. Well, ...

The Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum is one of those secrets hiding in plain sight, a full-scale Egyptian temple filled with ...