Researchers are transforming access to some of the world's oldest written records using digital technology and multilingual ...

A new exhibition is presenting the history of the Lebanese archaeological site of Byblos to European audiences in Paris, writes David Tresilian ...

A long-overlooked writing system from 5000 years ago is still largely undeciphered, but could mark the moment humans first ...

The Sumerians are often credited with creating one of the world’s earliest civilizations, developing cities, writing, and ...

Now, French archaeologist François Desset and his colleagues say they have cracked much of it. If confirmed, their work would ...

Specific genomic regions that seem to play a role in human language development evolved hundreds of thousands of years ago, ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. Writing is thought to have emerged in ancient Mesopotamia some 5,000 years ago. But new research by ...

Excavations at Konar Sandal A and B, two mounds standing 13 and 21 meters high respectively, uncovered clay and stone tablets inscribed with geometric characters. Some researchers connect these ...

The specific tablet that has caused such excitement is a school text listing kings who ruled at the end of the third millennium BC. Other known copies of this same royal list also include Gilgamesh, ...