By combining radiocarbon dating and artificial intelligence researchers are redating some of the fragments of the Dead Sea ...

How social media is pushing back against the still common idea that African societies never had a knowledge system.

Because the ink contains no metal, unlike many ancient writing materials ... Top to bottom: a reference photograph, a texture image, a network-generated prediction image, and a network-generated ...

And then there's the speckled texture. The distinctive spotted look ... conservator Seham Abdelazeim needs to carefully protect this ancient writing with a water-soluble cellulose binder.

“I worked really carefully because when you find writing, that’s always an exciting thing in the ancient world,” said Sullivan. “I knew it was important. I certainly did not have any idea ...

They are written in Hanja, an ancient writing system based on Chinese characters ... If there was a subtle difference in the surface texture of bare papyrus fibres compared with ink-coated ones ...

Their finds — ranging from storage pits to a rare writing tool — revealed a glimpse of ancient life. The ancient Celtic settlement near Altenburg stretches across the looping Rhine River and ...

Just outside the Syrian city of Aleppo, archaeologists have discovered what may be the oldest example of alphabetic writing ever found ... betas and gammas of Ancient Greek, cultures around ...

The ancient writing was found on several clay cylinders, each the length of a finger, in Syria. A perfectly preserved tomb was located by researchers containing unbroken pottery, six skeletons ...

What appears to be evidence of some of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history is etched onto finger-length, clay cylinders excavated from a tomb in Syria by a team of Johns Hopkins University ...