A remarkable and “signficant” find from 1800 years ago has answered a huge question many of us have pondered about Jesus.

The first Ukrainian citizens have signed contracts with the Ukrainian Armed Forces as part of the Ukrainian Legion in Poland, Ukraine's Defense Ministry reported on Nov. 12. The unit is part of an ...

Since the re-discovery of the classical writers in the Renaissance, the Roman legion has been admired as the epitome of an efficient fighting machine. Writers such as Julius Caesar, Josephus the Jew ...

Mesopotamian trade symbols may be origins of proto-cuneiform. Cylinder seals linked trade to early script development. Study shows transition from trade symbols to structured writing.

Anthropologists have spent decades documenting a mysterious collection of symbols etched into the Peruvian desert, depicting everything from human decapitation and domesticated animals to knife ...

Archaeologists have long known that the Maya Lowlands, in the southernmost region of Mexico, harbors ancient urban settings (SN: 10/25/21). When archaeologist Luke Auld-Thomas, of Tulane ...

Her raid launched years of back-and-forth fighting between the Roman legion and the Kush. At times the legion won victories, razing Nubian towns to the ground, but Amanirenas fought back with ...

Thousands of years ago, our ancestors used symbols to track the sale of textile and agricultural products. New research suggests that these markings informed the development of writing Sarah Kuta ...

A series of 5,000-year-old mysterious symbols imprinted on ancient cylinder seals made before recorded history could help researchers finally decode large portions of the world’s first written ...

Many Roman statues appear starkly white today. Yet in antiquity, these sculptures were adorned with bright paints and intricate patterns, bringing them vividly to life. Ancient Rome maintains a ...

Some of the symbols on these cylinder seals correspond to those used in proto-cuneiform, a form of proto-writing used in Mesopotamia. The finding indicates that the invention of writing in ...