This tiny 4,000-year-old cuneiform tells a big story about past civilizations.

There's nothing quite like having a drink to celebrate payday – and it turns out this tradition dates back thousands of years. Scientists have discovered one of the earliest known beer tabs in the ...

The lead curse tablet was discovered in a city square in the Netherlands and recently deciphered by researchers in Germany ...

His mother spent months weaving his clothes by hand. He wrote her a clay tablet to say his classmate's clothes were nicer and ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Archaeologists have unearthed an ancient tablet with an early form of ...

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The newly deciphered lead tablet reveals a binding curse written in ancient Greek, buried in a pit, and still full of unsolved mysteries.

The tablet could predate the earliest known evidence of writing in the Caucasus region by over a thousand years, hinting at a potentially lost script. Reading time 3 minutes A few years ago, fishermen ...

A new translation of cuneiform relics from the second millennium B.C. highlights the warnings that astrologers saw in eclipses. By Franz Lidz It was good to be the king in ancient Babylonia, unless, ...

IOUs, a note to a brewer, and the earliest handwritten document known from Britain — these are among the 405, nearly 2,000-year-old Roman waxed writing tablets archaeologists have unearthed and ...

Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: Roman officials in modern-day Belgium once tossed old wooden frames used for wax writing tablets into a well to make sure nobody could read what was ...