The Rosetta Stone is widely considered one of archaeology's most significant finds. A decree from Egyptian Pharaoh Ptolemy V ...

The Phaistos disk is covered in indecipherable symbols.

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

Egypt's greatest mysteries—lost tombs, cryptic texts, and eerie curses—continue to intrigue, with leading theories offering ...

A depiction of the unification of ancient Egypt? Or a powerful piece of propaganda for an early pharaoh? Here’s what we know ...

depicted in the... columns in hieroglyphs) they have built the pyramid (the royal tomb)." Which pyramid? It is the first... of Djoser... built by Imhotep ...

A rare 1,700-year-old lamp with Jewish Temple symbols has been uncovered in Jerusalem, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Thursday. Excavation Director Michael Chernin explained the ...

Fishermen have uncovered a mysterious stone tablet with an unknown ancient language in Georgia's Bashplemi Lake, baffling ...

Alphabetic writing offered those illiterate to hieroglyphics—a system of over 1,000 symbols which was mastered ... at Umm-el Marra (possibly the ancient city of Tuba). Umm-el Marra, in modern ...