Until recently, Mayan script was indecipherable. David Stuart was one of the few who helped to crack it.

According to the researchers, the inscriptions’ discovery is not new. Early Egyptologists noticed them, but did not know what ...

Apparently, this approach for remembering grocery lists, house chores, deliveries, and the like was also a huge part of life for ancient Egyptians living over 2,000 years ago—something for which ...

Current evidence suggests that humans had the capacity for spoken language at least 130,000 years ago. Ever the ...

An Egyptian-German archaeological mission has unearthed a staggering 13,000 inscribed pottery fragments, known as ostraca, at the ancient site of Athribis in Sohag, Upper Egypt, including over 130 ...

Combining the writing on the bones with paleoclimate reconstructions, the team found how typhoon activity helped shift the ...

Aliens did not visit Earth in the distant past. They didn't build the pyramids or rule ancient Greece from Mount Olympus or teach Mesoamericans how to plant corn. How do I know? Because they did ...

A Star Trek writer secretly turned his own on-set struggles into canon, calling out producers through one surprisingly personal story.

Archaeologists have uncovered a huge trove of notes written on the Ancient Egyptian equivalent of scrap paper. A German-Egyptian team says it has uncovered more than 43,000 inscribed pottery and ...

Stretching across two-thirds of our planet, Asia harbors secrets that span millions of years of human history. From the frozen burial grounds of Siberia to ...

The educational theater publisher uses its curated catalog and educator resources to support the growing conversation ...

Home to some of the last speakers of Aramaic, Maaloula was attacked in Syria’s civil war. Its residents are determined to rebuild–and preserve their mother tongue from extinction.