In 1893, British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans purchased some ancient stones with mysterious ... The excavations on Crete also revealed a third type of writing system, with symbols that looked ...

A correspondence about an ancient Greek letter that was eaten by mice is certainly one of the funniest anecdotal ...

which starts at different times depending on what part of the world you're studying. In most places, writing started about the same time ancient civilizations emerged from hunter-gatherer ...

Y: I hate to burst your bubble, but ancient ... writing directly on an animal skin surface. But one of the most famous Dead Sea Scrolls, called the Temple Scroll, shows something different.

Egypt’s first interactive platform for learning ancient Egyptian language, the “Hieroglyphs Step by Step” website, has ...

The ancient writing was found on several clay cylinders ... with new communication technologies much earlier and in a different location than we had imagined before now." The archaeologist ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type ... different parts of the mummy with a special instrument. The ancient Egyptians ...