Researchers report that AI deciphered the Hammurabi tablet at 98% accuracy, opening the door to translating ancient cuneiform ...

The Greek alphabet, traditionally believed to have emerged in the eighth century BC, is now undergoing reevaluation thanks to groundbreaking research at Leiden University. The writing system is ...

For centuries, the study of cuneiform—the world’s oldest known writing system—relied on painstaking manual transcription, with scholars dedicating years to deciphering individual tablets ...

Nestled on the coast of the island of Euboea (Evia), the ancient city of Eretria was one of the most influential centers in ...

A wooden hunter’s toolbox inscribed with an ancient writing system from Zambia has been making waves on social media. "We've grown up being told that Africans didn't know how to read and write ...

Found at a site tied to myth, the early Greek tablet bears the continent's earliest known readable writing—and survives only by accident.

Cylinder seals and proto-cuneiform acted as the accounting system for ancient Mesopotamia in one of the earliest invented writing systems.

A new metro system in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki opens featuring driverless trains and displays of some of the 300,000 historic artifacts unearthed in its construction.

As the Hittite Empire concluded its reign, the writing system went extinct with it. 8. Linear B - 1500 BCE The oldest surviving writing systems among Greek civilization, Linear B was mainly deployed ...