The ancient Egyptians invented one of the earliest known writing systems used from around 3000 BC. The symbols they used were called hieroglyphs, which comes from a Greek word meaning ...

The mysticism surrounding tarot cards extends to their history. Let's delve into the many existing theories of the tarot ...

The Phaistos disk is covered in indecipherable symbols.

Four small, clay tablets, unearthed in 2004, are finally gaining attention as possibly the first evidence of an alphabet, but ...

A Johns Hopkins archaeologist recycles a 20-year-old hypothesis that small clay cylinders found in an ancient tomb reset the ...

Read almost any of the Maya's ancient writings ... deities with certain numbers, the symbols of these deities came to represent numbers. No one studying Maya hieroglyphs would get very far without ...

Google has launched a hieroglyphics translator that uses machine learning to decode ancient Egyptian language ... the images to better analyse the symbols. The Workbench feature allows users ...

A stone slab covered with 123 hieroglyphic cartouches discovered at an ancient Maya pyramid in Mexico ... beginning to ...

Here’s how it works. Ancient Egypt is famous for its pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs. At times throughout its thousands of years of history, ancient Egypt was an empire that controlled vast ...

The quest to decipher Maya hieroglyphs began with the very Spanish invaders whose hegemonic rule did so much to wipe out the ancient Maya ... that the Maya even had a symbol for zero, which ...