British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans purchased some ancient stones with mysterious inscriptions on them at a flea market in ...
The symbols did not resemble Mesopotamian cuneiform or Egyptian hieroglyphs, the main writing systems used in ... a personal name that derives from the ancient Semitic root for rock.
While still a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, UC Santa Cruz professor Elaine Sullivan unearthed ancient ...
The ancient Egyptians invented one of the earliest known writing systems used from around 3000 BC. The symbols they used were called hieroglyphs, which comes from a Greek word meaning ...
Archaeologists in Norway have discovered fragments of the world’s oldest rune stone in Svingerud burial field, dating back to 50 BC–275 AD.
She said the ancient objects are each about the ... and was dumbfounded by what he was seeing. “If the symbols were examples of writing, they didn’t look like the kind of writing system ...
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