The origins of writing in ancient Mesopotamia and beyond may rest on a group of cylindrical seals. A team of archeologists from the University of Bologna in Italy has identified a series of ...

Designs on stone cylinders dating back six thousand years correspond to some signs of the proto-cuneiform script that emerged ...

The origins of writing in Mesopotamia lie in the images imprinted by ancient cylinder seals on clay tablets and other ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a rare gold artifact inscribed with ancient Greek text dedicated to Jupiter at a Roman fortress ...

Divers illuminate the pile of ancient Roman jars. Photo from Sicily’s Superintendence ... Archaeologists identified the jars ...

A pottery shard recently unearthed upon Mount Zion in Jerusalem proves that cat contentment transcends centuries and ...

An excavation at a Roman fortress in the country of Georgia has revealed a gold offering to a god of war, a colorful mosaic and other artifacts.

The German portal Focus recounts the history of the sunken Greek shipwreck "Gela II" off the coast of Sicily, near Gela, ...

The deep penetrations suggest that the feline was pressing its claws into the clay, a behavior sometimes known as "making ...

Archaeologists uncovered a 5,000-year-old Bronze Age temple in Israel, revealing rare insights into ancient rituals and urban ...

Natah, reveal how life at the time was slowly changing from a nomadic to an urban existence, archaeologists said.

I sraeli archaeologists have discovered the oldest known artifact bearing traces of a cat's 'kneading' behavior—a fragment of ...