Looking at photos of a 2,400-year-old tablet recently found in Spain, a linguistic expert thought he recognized a symbol carved into the gray stone. It turned out to be a mysterious ancient alphabet.

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 ...

For example, several symbols depict a warrior with features reminiscent of the Sea Peoples as depicted in ancient Egyptian ... It’s thought that the writing follows a clockwise direction and ...

The journey of human civilization has been marked by innovation, discovery, and the constant evolution of tools that shape ...

A series of Maya hieroglyphs may look like just so many pretty pictures or symbols to you ... You can both read the ancient Maya (transcribed using the Roman alphabet) and hear it spoken (by ...

postulated that the individual symbols in Maya glyphs stood for phonetic sounds, much like English letters do. Knorosov knew that Maya had too many glyphs to be a true alphabet but too few for ...

While excavating the 19/3 site in Iraq’s Al-Fayadiya district, a team led by archaeologist Quhtan Abbas Hassan Aboud has ...

One of the greatest milestones in the Armenian history was the invention of the Armenian alphabet in 406 A.D. It was a ...

Inside a basilica in Turkey, researchers have unearthed a bone-filled tomb that may have belonged to a Roman gladiator named ...