Scholars deciphered inscriptions on 4,000-year-old tablets more than 100 years after they were originally discovered. One ...

Scholars Finally Decode 'Unreadable' Ancient Roman Tablets That No One Was Supposed to See ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists have unearthed “administrative tablets,” which provide the oldest tangible proof of the world's first empire, the ...

A new translation of cuneiform relics from the second millennium B.C. highlights the warnings that astrologers saw in eclipses. By Franz Lidz It was good to be the king in ancient Babylonia, unless, ...

Red tape may feel like a modern-day frustration, but according to archaeologists, it's been a part of governance for millennia. Evidence from ancient Mesopotamia reveals that bureaucratic systems were ...

A piece of an ancient clay tablet found in Greece may have something to say about the written word and the people who produced it. Discovered last summer by a St. Louis archeological team that's been ...

A fiery ancient curse inscribed on two sides of a thin lead tablet was meant to afflict, not a king or pharaoh, but a simple greengrocer selling fruits and vegetables some 1,700 years ago in the city ...

Imago Mundi in 2024. (British Museum) In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have deciphered what is believed to be the world's oldest map--a 3,000-year-old Babylonian clay tablet that may reveal ...

A man known as Demetrios was among the first Ancient Greeks to have traveled to England over two millennia ago.