It turned out to be a mysterious ancient alphabet. Joan Ferrer i Jané, a researcher with the University of Barcelona focused on ancient languages, learned about the 2,400-year-old stone tablet ...

Armed with new tools, scholars are finally able to read papyrus scrolls long deemed too fragile to open. The breakthrough ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the oldest known Christian church in Armenia. Shaped like an octagon with cross-shaped ...

Dating to the mid-fourth century AD, it is the oldest archaeologically documented church in the country and provides ...

Wall St. Insights Roman, Egyptian, and Chinese civilizations had many different ingenious inventions.  Chocolate was a big ...

On the west clockface of the University of Texas Tower ― a treasured Longhorn landmark that was once the city's tallest ...

one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. There are many theories surrounding the gardens, from their exact location to the identities of their builders. Some suggest the gardens formed a ...

He ruled so much of the world they called him ‘Alexander ... Finally, our language has roots in ancient Greece, from the individual letters through to complete words like dinosaur and helicopter!

Researchers have wondered how an alligator-size arthropod lived more than 300 million years ago. The discovery of an intact ...

Archaeologists recently unearthed the remains of an ancient church in Armenia, which they believe originated in the 4th ...

There were muses specifically for comedy, tragedy and even erotica. The oldest was Calliope, mother of the legendary musician ...

Ancient Apocalypse swept through the first season with its unique take on archaeology, spearheaded by author and journalist ...