Read almost any of the Maya's ancient writings and it's clear that numbers played a significant role in their culture—there are few documents that don't contain at least some. As you might expect, the ...

Archaeologists in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula have decoded Maya hieroglyphs to identify the name of a sixth-century queen: Ix Ch’ak Ch’een. Ix Ch’ak Ch’een ruled over the city of Cobá, and she likely ...

Assassin’s Creed Origins has a lot of historical and cultural value packed into the Egyptian setting, and while it’ll take some time to double check the accuracy of most of it, one scholar says that ...

Archaeologists from Yale and the Royal Museums of Art and History in Belgium have discovered an ancient Egyptian "billboard" that might turn back the clock on when the hieroglyphic writing system was ...

'How We Decoded The Hieroglyphs Of Ancient Egypt' In this clip from the History Hit documentary 'The Story of Egyptology', Dr Chris Naunton explores how 18th century scholars worked frantically to ...

Archaeologists from Yale and the Royal Museum of Art and History in Belgium have discovered the earliest-known ‘billboard-sized’ hieroglyphs in the ancient Egyptian city of Elkab. The hieroglyphs, ...

For centuries, the meaning of the mysterious and mystical Egyptian hieroglyphs baffled the greatest minds in the world. Then, in 1799, the discovery of the most famous piece of rock in archaeology ...