Accidental archaeological discoveries are relatively common in Greece, a country renowned for its ancient heritage, and often made during building construction or public works. In December ...

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

In the mid 1970s when Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis proposed changing the Greek alphabet to Latin and making the Greek language phonetic, the minister of culture and a Parliament member ...

It’s a very personal thing. So whenever we get artifacts like this, we treat them with great respect," said Seib. Centuries ago, before indoor plumbing, people would use outhouses separate from ...

As a volcanic eruption darkened the sun roughly 4,900 years ago, a Stone Age culture sacrificed hundreds of decorated stone plaques to try to coax it back. A trove of engraved stones unearthed ...

Amid the ashes of a funeral pyre, encased in burnt mud, was a papyrus scroll—the first to be found in mainland Greece. Dating of the document and the discovery its literary nature subsequently ...

Early interpretations of this tablet suggests dramatic events and possibly ancient warfare ... and other administrative artifacts in the lower town palace further supports this identification ...

Of all the mysteries that the massive James Webb Space Telescope has seen so far in the early universe, one of the strangest are objects that astronomers now call "little red dots." Like the ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has brought ancient languages ... an early form of Greek used primarily for administrative and economic purposes. After the decline of the Mycenaean civilization around ...

New discoveries by a UCF researcher and her team at the ancient Mesopotamian site of ... and other administrative artifacts in the lower town palace further supports this identification since ...

The scuttling of the government’s latest legal battle isn’t necessarily the end of RMS Titanic Inc.'s attempts to enter the rapidly deteriorating ocean liner or to fetch more historic objects. The ...

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