Still, the “board game” framing has a quiet strength: it’s testable. Scholars can compare wear patterns, spatial logic, and symbol clustering against known game-board behaviors, rather than betting ...

A 2,000-year-old love note and an illustrated gladiator fight scene were among the ancient inscriptions recently uncovered on ...

Ancient Egypt in North Africa was one of the most powerful and influential civilizations in the region for over 3,000 years, from around 3100 B.C to 30 B.C. It left behind numerous monuments, ...

Ancient Greek was mainly used for administrative purposes. It was a phonetic writing system composed of a set of letters that represented sounds. Because it used individual symbols to represent vowels ...

New analysis of ancient writings suggests that sailors from the Italian hometown of Christopher Columbus knew of America 150 years before its renowned 'discovery'. Transcribing and detailing a, circa, ...