Event Abstract: Ancient Maya cosmology and sociocultural conduct was entwined with a complex calendar system. This is evident from thousands of stone inscriptions and other extant texts, especially ...

In 2009, archaeologists discovered a Coptic monastery in Abydos founded in the fifth century a.d. Embedded in its floor was a large fragment of an inscription that was more than 1,500 years older. The ...

Before the invention of alphabets, literacy was the purview of Egyptian and Mesopotamian scribes trained in complex writing systems that could take years to master. Proto-Sinaitic script, which uses a ...