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The Greek language was written in capital letters, without punctuation or spaces between the words. Credit: Zde, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Have you ever wondered why ancient Greeks used a ...

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“I worked really carefully because when you find writing, that’s always an exciting thing in the ancient world,” said Sullivan. “I knew it was important. I certainly did not have any idea ...

An exhibit at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., entitled "Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya," highlighted the ...

Thus, via a technological time machine, this video is akin to listening in on conversations in forgotten marketplaces or hearing ancient speeches given by prominent persons of distant eras. In ...

Thousands of years ago, a group of hunter-gatherers roamed the steppes of southern Russia, fishing in its rivers and hunting ...

including clay tablets with ancient cuneiform writing, a game board and large structural remains, may provide a wealth of knowledge about this Middle Bronze Age city and shed light on the more ...

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This book-sized artifact, measuring 24.1 x 20.1 centimeters, displays an inscription containing 39 singular symbols that correspond to no known ancient form of writing, stated Archaeology News.