The marble slab, which dates to between 300 and 500 C.E., is the oldest-known stone tablet inscribed with the Commandments.

Ephedra seeds found in an ancient burial pit may be the earliest evidence yet for the medicinal use of plants.

Roughly 2,600 years after somebody carved an inscription on a monument in what is now Turkey, an American researcher appears to have cracked the code. The engraving on the Arslan Kaya monument spells ...

An ancient inscription decorated with lions and sphinxes is finally deciphered, and it involves the "mother of the gods." ...

The discovery of an 11th-century Islamic astrolabe in Verona, Italy, has captivated historians and scientists alike. With ...