Saraswati Puja marks the start of education for many children in Nepal as they inscribe their first words on temple walls.

While still a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, UC Santa Cruz professor Elaine Sullivan unearthed ancient ...

A cross-border conservation project centered on barn owls is fostering cooperation between Israeli and Arab scientists, ...

Archaeologists working at the Domus Aurea, Emperor Nero’s grand palace in ancient Rome, have uncovered a rare and remarkable artifact: a large ingot of Egyptian blue, the world’s first synthetic ...

The origins of the Library of Alexandria are still debated by historians, but it was likely established around 295 B.C.E.

Depictions of the bee appear very early in the development of coinage in ancient Greece, which may have started in Ephesus.

The Egyptian Knowledge Bank (EKB) signed two Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) on Sunday with the Association of Arab Universities and the Federation of Arab Scientific Research Councils (FASRC) to ...

The knowledge of writing is not very old compared to human history. It was only invented 5,000 years ago. It is one of the most important human inventions because, without it, it would have been ...

Thankfully the symbols they use are (mostly) universal, so once you've learned what each represents (as we explain below) you shouldn't have any problems no matter what you find in your laundry basket ...

Like the Aztec and early Egyptian pictographs, the symbols on message sticks hold ... has contributed to the marginalization of Indigenous knowledge systems. The claim that Aboriginal peoples ...