If not for the work of two scholars, Alice Kober and Michael Ventris, the ancient Greek script Linear B would likely still be a mystery.

Ancient Greece has traditionally been periodized into five eras: the Bronze Age, Iron Age, Archaic Age, Classical Age, and ...

But the booming interest in climate change has transformed the study of ancient weather records from what was once a "wallflower science," says Christian Pfister, a climate historian at the University ...

The art of calligraphy dates back more than 1,400 years to the Nabataean people, who wrote an elegant script that was a precursor to Arabic.

The ancient Egyptians built temples that lasted thousands of years, and one of them happens to be in San Jose. Well, ...

ALMATY – Turan University in Astana presented the exhibition “Written Heritage of the Great Steppe” on Feb. 19, organized by the National Center of Manuscripts and Rare Books. The event highlighted ...

German discovery of Stone Age art may reveal a precursor to writing ...

Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. According to a new analysis ...

Rare four-month exhibition offers the first full public viewing since 1968.The post Ancient words unrolled: Israel Museum displays Great Isaiah Scroll appeared first on JNS.org.

The name Iran comes from the Indo-Iranian roots of the people who built early Persian civilisation.

Among the major attractions at the exposition were a Sharada script copy of the Rigveda, critical editions of the Mahabharata ...

Rotello has worked with Patti Smith and was friends with Hilly Kristal, the late owner of CBGB, the iconic club where Smith, Blondie and the Ramones got their start.