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.

A 1,600-year-old Byzantine-era mosaic from a Christian monastery was recently put on public display for the first time, giving a glimpse into life during ancient times. The Israeli Ministry of ...

Ongoing research from the University of St Andrews has discovered that khipus, the mysterious string writing of the Inkas ... of Santa Leonor de Jucul to study their collection of ancient khipus, ...

Instead of writing on clay tablets or papyrus, as other ancient societies did, the Incas recorded information by tying knots into long cords they called khipus. Only a few Andean villages have ...

The mosasaur was the apex predator of the seas when dinosaurs roamed land. Geologists working in Mississippi recently stumbled upon an incredible find: the fossil of an ancient marine apex predator.

Ancient military fortifications dating back to the Ptolemaic and Roman eras of Egyptian history were recently uncovered by archaeologists. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ...

They had already found traces of ancient life in beds of seashells from when Mississippi was underwater millions of years ago. In a layer of mud, they noticed something clearly not rock.

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an ancient Egyptian writing system. Archaeologists believe that these inscriptions may describe the events of the Mesha-led rebellion. The 2,800-year-old inscriptions are still being deciphered by ...