In a quiet temple in Vientiane, surrounded by stacks of manuscripts and the echoes of ancient teachings, Phaivanh Malavong ...

Archaeologists uncovered a 1,600-year-old mummy at Egypt's Al-Bahnasa necropolis with a papyrus containing text from Homer's ...

No other ancient historian has written a book so insightful on the mechanisms of war as Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War.

Guggenheim Fellowships have been awarded this year to four scholars from the University of Chicago. Announced April 14, the ...

The meaning behind Teotihuacan’s enigmatic symbols is finally coming to light, revealing new evidence of an early Uto-Aztecan ...

Ancient Roman board game stumped experts for decades – until AI played A slab of limestone excavated in 1984 from the ancient Coriovallum settlement in the Netherlands presented a puzzle for ...

With artificial intelligence (AI) as an essential tool, San Diego State University researchers have discovered surprising similarities among ancient writing systems from Africa and the Caucasus region ...

Washington and Lee University classics Professor Rebecca Benefiel addressed the University of Wisconsin community Thursday in a talk titled, “Ancient Writing and Reading: Culture and communication ...

From left, characters in the Ethiopic (portions only), Armenian, Georgian and Caucasian Albanian alphabets. With artificial intelligence (AI) as an essential tool, San Diego State University ...

The dust-covered relic emerges from the earth, promising to rewrite history books and challenge everything we thought we knew about the past. For centuries, archaeological discoveries have captured ...

Ritual grain server (yu) with masks (taotie), dragons, and cicadas. Inscribed on the bottom of the interior, Yi Che 亦車 (“Yi-Chariot”). Collection of the ...