The specific tablet that has caused such excitement is a school text listing kings who ruled at the end of the third millennium BC. Other known copies of this same royal list also include Gilgamesh, ...

New research shows Stone Age humans created structured signs and symbol systems 40,000 years ago, long before formal writing ...

Before German craftsman Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press in the mid-15th century, a single Bible could take ...

Archaeology Days invites us to a weekend gathering from June 12 to 14, 2026, and on Place de la Bastille a village dedicated to this fascinating discipline awaits us for the occasion. Here’s what’s in ...

There's nothing quite like having a drink to celebrate payday - and it turns out this tradition dates back thousands of years ...

The translation appears to align with a description of Nebuchadnezzar from the Book of Daniel, which depicts him walking on ...

Clemency Montelle, who has been studying ancient astronomical traditions for more than a decade, has been recognised for her work with a research medal awarded for the first time outside the United ...

O NCE THERE WAS a clay pot and it fell and broke. Once there was a man and he too fell.

“Hey, Rob, we needed you last night!” I heard that this morning from a classmate, during the casual chit-chat phase of class ...

In the early 1470s, a Benedictine monk named Filippo de Strata sat down to write a furious letter to the Doge of Venice.

There's something deeply unsettling about discovering an object that simply has no business being where it is, or when it is.