Think about walking through ruins that have witnessed empires rise and fall, where kings once ruled and civilizations ...

Leonardo Da Vinci famously utilized left-handed mirror script for personal notes, effectively reversing his handwriting to keep private thoughts concealed.

In this two-part article, the author presents an overview of what various ancient textual artifacts “remember” about the earliest loan closings ...

A new study suggests flower patterns painted on 8,000-year-old pottery reveal early ideas of balance, symmetry and numerical ...

The Bronze Age began around 3300 BCE with the discovery that copper mixed with tin produced a stronger alloy. This breakthrough transformed tools, weapons, and construction. Civilizations in ...

Evidence indicates that these people held positions of power because of their gender ambiguity, not despite it.

In different passage, Aulus tells us about some bookstalls he came across when he arrived by ship at the port of Brundisium ...

The Dispilio tablet is a wooden artefact bearing linear marks, unearthed in 1993 during George Hourmouziadis’s excavations of ...

Today, trans people face politicization of their lives and vilification from politicians, media and parts of broader society.

Archaeologists excavating the Aççana Mound, also known as Eski Alalah, have made an amazing discovery: a cuneiform tablet detailing a shopping list of purchases from almost 3,500 years ago. The tablet ...