The tech tools are able to decipher and reconstruct fragments Hittite texts in a fraction of the time it has taken humans to ...

Discover how the new Palaeographicum system isolates ancient handwriting styles to reconstruct long-lost secrets of human ...

Learn how AI is helping researchers reconnect shattered clay tablets and recognize the handwriting styles of individual ...

One such extraordinary artifact is an intriguing Egyptian tablet that has sparked intense debate among researchers and alternative historians alike. By mainstream archaeologists’ assessment, this ...

Red tape may feel like a modern-day frustration, but according to archaeologists, it's been a part of governance for millennia. Evidence from ancient Mesopotamia reveals that bureaucratic systems were ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Inscriptions on a set of four clay tablets from the ancient Near ...

A new translation of cuneiform relics from the second millennium B.C. highlights the warnings that astrologers saw in eclipses. By Franz Lidz It was good to be the king in ancient Babylonia, unless, ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Archaeologists have recently discovered a previously unknown ancient ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Roman officials in modern-day Belgium once tossed old wooden frames used for wax writing tablets into a well to make sure nobody could read what was ...