A new study revives the old argument that ancient seals came before cuneiform, humanity's earliest known example of writing.

There is not a ton of evidence of what education looked like in ancient society, but we do know it existed - although not for ...

This week, uncover the secrets of Pompeii through ancient DNA, meet an adventurous emperor penguin, seek signs of mysterious ...

Excerpt**: Small but potent, a lead tablet dating back to 450 BCE offers a striking reminder of how ancient Greeks and Romans ...

Researchers have uncovered links between the precursor to the world’s oldest writing system and the mysterious, intricate ...

Researchers from the University of Bologna have unveiled how ancient cylinder seals played a key role in the development of ...

These days, Jessica Lamont, a social and cultural historian at Yale, uses the tablet in her classical antiquity classes, including seminars on Greek and Roman magic, epigraphy, Greek history, and the ...

It features several paragraphs of cuneiform text—the world’s oldest form of writing, predating ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics—on both sides of the clay. Before damage, the tablet showed ...

The back of the tablet details what a traveler might encounter on a journey. It instructs travelers to go “seven leagues… [to] see something thick as a parsiktu-vessel.” The term “parsiktu” has ...