A badly damaged tablet from 5079 BC discovered in Greece ... Archaeologists, who recently made a huge discovery about ancient Egypt's favorite board game and opened the 'world's oldest bottle ...

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Read about the others here. In the half-dark of a third-floor office, Danielle Levy lifted a clay tablet out of its box. Carefully examining it with gloved hands, she explained how 3,500 years ago, a ...

It is the oldest known Tablet of Moses: a specimen with the Ten Commandments carved in stone dating back 1500 years that will be auctioned and sold to the highest bidder. Sotheby's auction house ...

The tablet, which is now in the British Museum's ownership, does provide insight into labour conditions in ancient Egypt, as well as information about those who built the pyramids itself.

It is the first such tablet ever found in Israel. Researchers estimate that the artifact dates to between the 12th and 15th centuries BCE, a period during which the Egyptian empire ruled the area.

They got even. Known as a “curse tablet,” which was acquired five years ago by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, is actually a thin sheet of lead about the size of a playing card. On it ...