The sentence was inscribed on an ancient ivory comb found at the Tel Lachish archaeological site in 2016. A picture taken at the conservation laboratory of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem on ...

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 ...

Spanish archaeologists recently announced the discovery of an ancient stone with perplexing symbols carved onto it. The symbols, experts believe, are actually an ancient alphabet. If their ...

A message etched into an ancient sphinx has proven to be, well, sphinx-like. The “mysterious” inscription has long been an enigma, puzzling scholars for over a century. But now, it’s finally been ...

Archaeologists say they have uncovered evidence of what may be the world's oldest known alphabet. The alphabetic writing system was identified on finger-length clay cylinders excavated from a tomb in ...

Researchers have partially deciphered the "unknown Kushan script" — a writing system that has puzzled linguists since it was first found in the 1950s. The researchers decoded the ancient text using ...

The earliest known example of alphabetic writing has been discovered etched onto small clay cylinders in an ancient Syrian tomb, which was excavated by researchers from Maryland’s Johns Hopkins ...

The earliest manuscript of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas was found in a German university library after sitting for decades. Greg Rosenke via Unsplash At the Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky State and ...