On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

Credit: Tiffany Earley-Spadoni The archaeological site of Kurd Qaburstan, located in the Erbil region of northeastern Iraq, has emerged as an invaluable source of knowledge about ... around 1800 BCE.

As people celebrate the beginning of the new Chinese lunar year, the Year of the Snake, what do snakes symbolize in mythology?

All the beasts have above them a few symbols which look like writing ... It ranked as a contemporary and an equal with Ancient Egypt or Mesopotamia ... and it had been totally forgotten.

There has been significant research into learning how far back writing has been used and a new study published in the journal Antiquity looks to take that knowledge even deeper. The study looks at ...

Made up of signs and symbols ... Indo-Aryan languages and Sumerian. Decyphering the script would allow researchers to gain further knowledge on governance and beliefs. However, despite ...

Activist Sumer Singh, a member of Team Oran—a community-based group ... While the judgment acknowledges the importance of traditional knowledge and cultural practices, Chandran warned that assigning ...

The numerous inscriptions on seals and terracotta tablets discovered at Indus sites include a wide range of symbols, including human and animal ... The general lack of knowledge has made it impossible ...

The Indus Valley Civilization's script remains undeciphered despite scholarly efforts and modern AI attempts. Tamil Nadu's ...

THE great and inventive people who settled 5,500 years ago in Mesopotamia, the land between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates (now part of Iraq), founded one of the world’s first major civilizations.

Saraswati Puja marks the start of education for many children in Nepal as they inscribe their first words on temple walls.