Archeologists in Spain have recently uncovered an ancient rock slab with an alphabet inscribed that predates the Rosetta Stone by roughly 400 years. The discovery in southwest Spain is believed to ...

The stone was found built into an ancient wall near the town of Rashid (Rosetta). When the British defeated the French, the ancient stone was put into British possession in 1801, according to ...

Although it's just a fragment of a larger rock slab, the letters and symbols chiseled into the face of the Rosetta Stone helped scholars crack the code of an ancient Egyptian writing system—and ...

Spanish archaeologists recently announced the discovery of an ancient stone with perplexing symbols carved onto it. The symbols, experts believe, are actually an ancient alphabet. If their ...

She picked up a stone which turned out to be an ancient scarab amulet dating back 3,800 years. “Out of the 7,000 stones around her, she picked up one stone. Then she brushed off the sand ...

Ancient stone circles act both as portals and reminders of a different time, writes Rosalind Jana, as an exhibition at the British Museum explores the mysteries of the deep past. There are many ...