Two ancient clay tablets unearthed in Iraq have unveiled details of a long-lost Canaanite language closely tied to ancient ...

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Every once in a while, a revolutionary invention comes along with the power to advance humanity and change the course of ...

The accepted story is that the first alphabet developed in the Sinai Peninsula around 1,900 B.C., an innovation on Egyptian ...

Researchers found the trays reached a temperature high enough for baking and similar to temperatures reached using domed ...

Focaccia has been a staple of Italian meals since at least ancient Rome, but new research indicates the flatbread’s origins ...

The researchers methodically compared the designs they found on ancient cylinder seals with known proto-cuneiform signs. The ...

The early writing appears to date to around 2400 B.C.—preceding the previous most bygone examples by roughly 500 years.

Although far from the oldest writing we have found, these cylinders are 500 years older than any previously known example of alphabetic script, if that is indeed what they carry.

Just outside the Syrian city of Aleppo, archaeologists have discovered what may be the oldest example of alphabetic writing ...

THE Sumerians they were a sedentary population of the ancient world, lived in Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq) over the ...

What appears to be evidence of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history is etched onto finger-length, clay cylinders ...