Berossus, a Babylonian priest writing in Greek, preserved a version of the Sumerian King List that includes rulers said to have reigned for extremely long periods. But how accurate is this account? In ...

Radiocarbon dating of Rongorongo tablets suggests the pictorial script could represent one of the rarest independent ...

Could it be that CNN, feeling the heavy dose of serious, even tragic news to their network, launched a comedy show last week, “America Laughs with Friend”, hosted by comedian Matt Friend, providing a ...

While Europeans eventually discovered the impressive moai statues for which the Rapa Nui are best known, they also stumbled ...

Specific genomic regions that seem to play a role in human language development evolved hundreds of thousands of years ago, ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. Writing is thought to have emerged in ancient Mesopotamia some 5,000 years ago. But new research by ...

In April 2026, the CWGC digitally added 33,000 Indian WWI soldiers' names to the Basra Memorial, rectifying a century of unequal commemoration.

A new book explores ancient letters about kings, pleas for help from a bereft mother, classroom exercises and ancient doodles – all dating to before 1500 BCE.

A Solar eclipse was one of the phenomena that prompted the ancient Greeks to come up with the most brilliant astronomic ...

An estimated 20% of the world's oil passes through the Strait of Hormuz. But amid the ongoing naval blockade and intensifying ...

A new study using radiocarbon dating suggests one Rongorongo tablet from Easter Island may date to 1493–1509, before European contact in 1722. If confirmed, this would make Rongorongo one of the rare ...

"There was exile 128 years ago, and today there is pressure and siege. There is pressure on the entire press, but this ...