Historians from the University of Cambridge recently unveiled a rare 13th-century document that depicts the stories of King ...

A team of researchers from the British Museum, led by Diego Tamburini, recently examined the tablet fragments using advanced ...

Fragment of a Neo-Assyrian tablet preserving wax, in the British Museum. ( The Trustees of the British Museum) The writing ...

The ancient Chinese calligraphic scroll by Rao Jie contains an inscription by Emperor Qianlong and his imperial seal.

Cuneiform, the oldest identified writing system, defied deciphering – until 1857. What happened then makes a terrific read, ...