Ancient myths have influenced civilizations and can be mapped to zodiac signs. Each sign aligns with a mythological pantheon reflecting its traits, li ...

Before the current written scripts, texts, and linguistic manuscripts, there were various oldest writing systems emerging ...

He maintains that Menes was at one and the same time the Sumerian emperor in Mesopotamia and the first dynastic king of Egypt, a crown-colony of his world-empire.

For over a century, experts - linguists, scientists and archaeologists - have tried to crack the Indus script. Theories have ...

In this short, the British Museum curator Sébastien Rey untangles an intricate archaeological puzzle some six millennia in the making. First, Rey introduces viewers to an excavation site of the ...

Sumerian cuneiform writing. Credit: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) / CC BY-SA 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons Another ancient language originated in Egypt. It boasts a rich history of written language ...

SCRIBE STATUE. FOUND: Lagash, Iraq. CULTURE: Sumerian. DATE: ca. 2400 B.C. LANGUAGE: Sumerian. In early 2016, hundreds of media outlets around the world reported that ...