While still a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, UC Santa Cruz professor Elaine Sullivan unearthed ancient artifacts in Syria marked with the oldest known alphabetic symbols.

An inscribed piece of pottery found in an ancient Jewish stronghold in the Jordan Valley has finally been deciphered ...

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Population of ancient Greece, Men weighing merchandise, side B of an Attic black-figure amphora. Credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.5 Estimating the population of ancient Greece is a ...

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As a volcanic eruption darkened the sun roughly 4,900 years ago, a Stone Age culture sacrificed hundreds of decorated stone plaques to try to coax it back. A trove of engraved stones unearthed ...

Charred by the flames of a funeral pyre, the Derveni Papyrus has proved to be a fascinating—and confounding—artifact Teresa Nowakowski Daily Correspondent The Derveni Papyrus, named for the ...

Credit: Eli Shukron / Israel Antiquities Authority Items included cooking pots, jars inscribed in ancient Hebrew, loom weights for weaving, decorative seals, scarabs, and grinding stones for milling ...

But using ice cores and other ancient data points allows scientists to peer much deeper into the past, and establish that the climate today is likely warmer than it has been in 120,000 years.

A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a more complex rise to fame than one might think. The birth of ...

Using trowels and brushes to remove ancient soil at an Early Bronze Age burial ... But Schwartz, over time, began to explore the possibility that the symbols on the cylinders could be an early Semitic ...