Sharp stone technology chipped over three million years allowed early humans to exploit animal and plant food resources. But how did the production of stone tools -- called 'knapping' -- start?

The British Museum has announced new trustee appointments—five well-known figures from disciplines including history, ...

The mortar, pestle and cutting board in your kitchen are modern versions of manos and metates—ancient cooking implements ...

By looking into China's material culture, Rawson has provided a new perspective on one of the world's oldest civilizations, ...

Champollion’s decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics was based on the fact that the Rosetta Stone (found during Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt) had the same Greek names written in ancient Greek ...

For example, during Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt, his army found the Rosetta Stone while demolishing a fort. This had the same message written in ancient Greek, Egyptian hieroglyphics ...

A magnificent Pictish stone that has stood for around 1,200 years and features some of the most impressive carvings of the era has been “massively damaged” after it blew over in the wind.

Such multilingual documents with multiple scripts written in known and unknown languages have been very effective in case of the Egyptian Hieroglyphs (decoded with the help of the Rosetta Stone ...

Some dismiss them as a hoax, while others celebrate them as authentic. According to researchers, a portion of the Egyptian hieroglyphs in Australia describe a fleet of Egyptian ships caught in a ...

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This limited dataset makes deciphering particularly difficult, as does the absence of a bilingual artifact, like the Rosetta Stone, which helped unlock ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. "Not a single ...