On the night of June 24, A.D. 726, a Maya official named Ajpach’ Waal reached the pinnacle of his career. On that day, he was granted an audience with the thirteenth king of Copán, known to scholars ...

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 ...

A middle-aged woman continuously shed tears before the golden mask of a boy pharaoh excavated from 3,300 years of darkness. This 110-kilogram solid gold mask once covered the mummy of Tutankhamun ...