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, ...

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A groundbreaking study using advanced radar technology has revealed a vast and intricate underground structure beneath the Pyramids of Giza. Scientists Corrado Malanga from the University of Pisa and ...

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A team of archaeologists in Iraq, led by Sebastian Rey, the British Museum’s curator of ancient Mesopotamia ... who invented writing at the end of the fourth millennium BC”.

Archaeologists uncover an ancient burial site with Egyptian, Greek, and Roman graves at Tell Ruwad Iskandar, Egypt. Credit: Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient ...

The tomb was found within an ancient Egyptian necropolis in Abydos ... Within the workshop, archaeologists found 32 ostraca — writing on pottery shards — that discuss commercial transactions ...

OpenAI has trained a new AI model that is "really good" at creative writing, CEO Sam Altman said in a post on X. He fed the model a prompt to "write a metafictional literary short story about AI ...