Google DeepMind and historians created an AI tool called Aeneas that can predict the missing words in Latin inscriptions carved into stone walls and pottery sherds from the ancient Roman Empire.

The article explores the historical roots and practical applications of the 12-hour and 24-hour time formats. Originating ...

An engraved panel from Aswan may show one of Egypt's earliest political elites. It reveals how rulers used art to claim space ...

A recent study by Dr. Jana Matuszak, published in the academic journal Iraq, examines the mythical narrative contained in a ...

Far from Cairo’s bustle, Egypt’s minority communities are fighting to preserve their ancient languages against the tide of ...

The Sebeiba festival, a 3,000-year-old tradition of the Tuareg people, takes center stage in Djanet, an Algerian oasis town ...

A 12th-century translation error kicked off a 700-year trade in mummies, depopulating the tombs of Egypt to populate European ...

Also, approximately 3,330 ancient manuscripts remain in the library of St. Catherine's Monastery. The manuscripts are written in 12 different languages including Arabic, Greek, Syrian and Coptic.

Where Do Arabic Numbers Come From? The numbers we use daily, called "Arabic numerals," actually originated in ancient India around the 6th century CE, including the groundbreaking concept of zero ...

In the 6th century BCE, the Greek alphabet used 24 letters. To make numbers, the Greeks added three more symbols ( accounts differ as to whether these were resurrected older letters or newly designed ...

Arabic scholars took up the concepts and developed the Arabic number system, on which our modern numbers are based.