Explore ancient writing systems, manuscripts, and inscriptions from archaeological sites.
A team of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and international archaeologists has uncovered a rare 1,720-year-old Roman boundary stone at ...
A new study revealed key insights about Mediterranean language families' origins, including Italo-Celtic and Graeco-Armenian branches of Indo-European. An international ...
A basalt tablet inscribed with an enigmatic language has been unearthed near Lake Bashplemi in Georgia's Dmanisi region. Measuring 24.1 ...
The 2024 excavation season at Kouklia-Martsello in Palaepaphos, western Cyprus, has uncovered a rare fragmentary inscription in the Cypriot syllabary. ...
Historians at the University of Göttingen have identified a medieval document in their collection as a forgery from the 18th ...
A centuries-old mystery surrounding a 2,600-year-old inscription on the Arslan Kaya (“Lion Rock”) monument in western Turkey has been resolved. ...
A recent study has revealed a compelling link between Mesopotamian cylinder seals used in trade and the proto-cuneiform symbols that ...
A 3,500-year-old cuneiform tablet detailing a comprehensive furniture shopping list has been unearthed at the site of Aççana Mound, also ...
During a recent excavation in the village of Alqan, located in Saudi Arabia’s Tabuk province, archaeologists uncovered a bilingual inscription ...
An ancient manuscript fragment, long unnoticed in the Carl von Ossietzky State and University Library in Hamburg, Germany, has been ...
