Since humans discovered the power and capability that comes with numbers, we have lived in societies that enable us to … ...

If not for the work of two scholars, Alice Kober and Michael Ventris, the ancient Greek script Linear B would likely still be ...

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 ...

While still a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, UC Santa Cruz professor Elaine Sullivan unearthed ancient artifacts in Syria marked with the oldest known alphabetic symbols.

The well-known presenter of science TV programmes is professor of public engagement in science at Birmingham University in the UK, and an expert in palaeopathology, the study of ancient diseases.

Until 2011, Sudan and South Sudan were one country. Oxfam is helping people from Sudan and South Sudan who are affected by famine and conflict. Here's what you need to know about what’s going on in ...

Curtin University researchers have gained an unprecedented glimpse into the early history of our solar system through some of the most well ... OSIRIS-REx mission to the ancient asteroid Bennu.

A pre-Columbian society in the Amazon developed a sophisticated agricultural engineering system that allowed them to produce maize throughout the year, according to a recent discovery by a team of ...

To encourage the decipherment of the ancient Indus script ... Commons “We have not been able to clearly understand the writing system of the once flourishing Indus Valley,” says M.K. Stalin ...

Water engineers in ancient South America turned seasonally flooded Amazonian ... But the age of the drainage system and other ponds remains unknown.