A new study reveals birdsongs influenced Egyptian hieroglyphs, showing that ancient bird calls shaped some of the earliest ...

With artificial intelligence (AI) as an essential tool, San Diego State University researchers have discovered surprising similarities among ancient writing systems from Africa and the Caucasus region ...

Archaeologists have found a collection of ancient letters written on papyrus seemingly featuring correspondence between Roman military commanders in an "extremely rare" discovery. The documents were ...

Simon and Marie de Brienne were the 17th century's most active postmaster and postmistress, delivering personal and political letters alike across Europe. But the Briennes also had a secret. In ...

When we read about the Greco-Roman world, we often hear the stories of famous and wealthy men and women. But the letters of ordinary people, preserved on papyri in Egypt, show us what they were ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient letter written by Roman emperor leads to "monumental" discovery A letter written by a Roman emperor helped lead a team of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Written in Greek on an age-worn scrap of papyrus, it’s a letter from a woman named Sarapias to her son-in-law, Erminos. Her ...

Michael Polhamus claims that recall existed in ancient Athens (letters, June 6). Because Athens was a democracy in which citizens did not elect individuals to represent them but instead voted ...