Linguistic experts identified a mysterious alphabet carved on an ancient stone tablet from ruined Tartessian site in Guareña, officials said. Screengrab from video shared on X, formerly Twitter, by ...

A small stone tablet pulled from the soil of western Georgia has opened a vast new mystery. Inscribed with dozens of unfamiliar symbols, the artifact appears to preserve a script that does not match ...

Archaeologists discovered a basalt tablet about the size of a piece of paper bearing 60 unknown script characters expertly ...

In 2004, while she was still a meticulous young graduate student, Elaine Sullivan made a discovery that would deepen the history of human writing. Using trowels and brushes to remove ancient soil at ...

For decades, it's been a common belief that the Ancient Egyptians were responsible for the very first alphabet. Now, a shocking finding challenges this assumption, pushing back the age of the first ...

Looking at photos of a 2,400-year-old tablet recently found in Spain, a linguistic expert thought he recognized a symbol carved into the gray stone. It turned out to be a mysterious ancient alphabet.