The push to decipher the script is the latest front in a cultural war over India’s ancient past. Read more at ...

The Indus Valley script has baffled experts for over a century, its meaning lost to time. Now, the Indian government is ...

The beads were identified as amber, something that was not common in Syria during the Iron Age and originated from the Baltic ...

The country's government has announced that it is offering a whopping $1 million prize to anyone who can crack the mysterious ...

Before the current written scripts, texts, and linguistic manuscripts, there were various oldest writing systems emerging ...

The Sumerians of Mesopotamia are considered the world's oldest civilisation, dating back to around 4000 BCE. The Sumerians ...

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Greek astronomer Claudius Ptolemy, who lived in Egypt, built upon Babylonian knowledge in his geocentric model of the ...

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Population of ancient Greece, Men weighing merchandise, side B of an Attic black-figure amphora. Credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.5 Estimating the population of ancient Greece is a ...

Clay tablets at Kurd Qaburstan reveal ancient Mesopotamian culture Artefacts hint at urban life in the Middle Bronze Age city Findings challenge perceptions of ...