Was the Phoenician writing system a true alphabet? If not, what should it be called instead, and what was the earliest true ...

In the 1960s, scholars hypothesized that it was “epi-Olmec,” a late language of the Olmec people, the most ancient known Mesoamerican ... of objects with the same script unearthed since ...

It’s a tale that reads like an ancient comic strip. The victory of the Roman emperor Trajan over the Dacians in back-to-back wars is carved in numerous scenes that spiral around a 126-foot ...