Archaeologists working in northern Egypt uncovered a tablet rivaling the Rosetta Stone in its importance to decoding ancient language. Trnava University via Unsplash When Napoleon’s army accidentally ...

A basalt tablet bearing 60 mysterious symbols emerges from a Georgian lake, suggesting the existence of a lost writing system ...

Two stones with inscriptions that may date back to First Temple times are not fakes, according to an Israeli judge and a panel of experts. An Israeli antiquities dealer, Oded Golan, had been accused ...

ALMODOVAR, Portugal — When archaeologists on a dig in southern Portugal last year flipped over a heavy chunk of slate and saw writing not used for more than 2,500 years, they were elated. The ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — The oldest known stone ...