For 5,000 years, there has been dancing, processions, rituals and feasts. What have we celebrated, from Africa to Asia, Europe to South America? Take a look.

Two ancient manuscripts from Indonesia’s Lampung Province have been added to the 2025 National Collective Memory (IKON) list, ...

As the leading representative of Neo-Confucianism, Zhu played a pivotal role in decoding Confucian classics, injecting new ...

Ice Age Europeans carved the same 32 symbols across an entire continent. Were they decorating caves—or building the first written language?

The researchers uncovered three distinct submerged cargo assemblages in the Dor Lagoon—also known as Tantura Lagoon—on Israel ...

New research suggests the symbols on Teotihuacan's murals offer clues about who lived there and what language they spoke.

A family cleaning their backyard in New Orleans discovered an unusual marble tablet with some characters in Latin.

Danish linguists have achieved a breakthrough that could finally solve one of archaeology's greatest mysteries by deciphering the writing system of ancient Teotihuacan. The discovery reveals that the ...

Unknown ancient writing in Teotihuacan, Mexico, points to early Uto-Aztecan language and the identity of its inhabitants.

Even more exciting, they suggest that this writing records an early version of the Uto-Aztecan language family—a group of ...

The Greek and Hebrew alphabets share a common heritage and thus have some key similarities. However, there are also ...

Ancient Egypt is not a single moment but a long conversation with the Nile. Over three millennia, kings and commoners turned the river’s rhythm into government, art, and faith. What survives today—the ...