Excavations revealed the manuscript within a sealed sarcophagus, and it featured early hieroglyphic writings that held the ...

The Egyptian hieroglyphic ankh looks kind of similar to the Christian cross. This has lead some conspiracy theorists to argue ...

The earliest pottery with Indus script symbols dates to 4,000 BCE. Ever since, the Indus script has resisted attempted decipherments. Many ancient scripts were deciphered using bilingual or ...

Its carvings include early hieroglyphic symbols that are primarily pictorial, representing objects like animals, tools, and body parts. Likewise, writing from Aztecs from Mesoamerica also started ...

The accepted story is that the first alphabet developed in the Sinai Peninsula around 1,900 B.C., an innovation on Egyptian hieroglyphics, but a discovery in a tomb in Syria challenges that narrative.

You know those hieroglyphic-like laundry symbols on clothing labels? They relay important cleaning information. Here's what they mean and how to use them. A picture may be worth a thousand words ...

A bronze sword bearing the symbol of King Ramesses II was recently found at the Tell Al-Abqain site in Beheira Governorate. Ramesses was believed to have been referenced in the Book of Exodus.

An archaeological find in Mexico revealed a stone slab with 123 hieroglyphic symbols that, in part, describe the founding of a town in 569 AD. The slab was located on the floor of what was once a ...

Archaeologists discovered an ancient stone slab with 123 hieroglyphic symbols in Mexico, revealing the founding of a town in 569 AD and details about Maya rulers.