A newly deciphered letter home dating back around 1,800 years reveals the pleas of a young Egyptian soldier named Aurelius Polion who was serving, probably as a volunteer, in a Roman legion in Europe.

A letter written by a Roman emperor helped lead a team of archaeologists to an ancient temple that "adds significant insights into the social changes" from pagan beliefs to Christianity in the Roman ...

What were books like in ancient Greece and Rome? the oldest known writing dates to around 5000 BCE. It origins are mysterious ...

Ancient written languages emerged as a revolutionary development in human history, allowing civilizations to record important ...

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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 ...

Archaeologists estimate the "curse tablet," made from a folded lead sheet and inscribed with proto-alphabetic characters, may be at least 3,200 years old. Archaeologists working in the West Bank say ...

Getting a glimpse into the past is always fascinating. But what’s even more fascinating is finding out just how similar we still are as human beings, even when thousands of years separate us (case in ...

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(NEWSER) — "A full homer of wine, bring tomorrow; don't be late." That command, written on pottery excavated near the Dead Sea, not only shows soldiers liked to drink in the Kingdom of Judah around ...

NARRATOR: The great Judean Desert: south of Jerusalem and west of the Dead Sea; the land of the ancient prophets of the Hebrew Bible; the land of King David and King Solomon; the land of Jesus and the ...