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

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

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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.

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Explore the history of these allegedly 'powerful' ancient spells, from Egyptian love papyri to Greek curse tablets. The post ...

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 ...