Abstract: Recognizing handwritten text is a challenging task, especially for scripts with numerous alphabets and symbols. The Ethiopic script has a vast character set and is used for historical ...

The room we are in is locked. It is windowless and lit from above by a fluorescent bulb. In the hallway outside—two stories beneath the city of London—attendants in dark suits patrol silently, giving ...

It began more than a century ago, deep within the ancient turquoise mines of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. There, faint carvings ...

Sobek, crocodile-headed god of the Nile; Sekhmet, leonine goddess of war; Anubis, jackal god of the underworld; and Hathor, mother goddess with a cow’s horns: The ancient Egyptian pantheon of gods was ...

Ancient scripts like Linear A and Rongorongo are among the mysterious undeciphered languages that continue to puzzle ...

A 2,000-year-old code that once looked like random scratches on parchment has finally given up its secret, turning a handful of obscure Dead Sea fragments into a new window on one of antiquity’s most ...

Abstract: The deciphering of early civilizations' sociological, linguistic, and architectural history depends heavily on the preservation of ancient inscriptions. Because inscriptions carved in ...

A language scholar has solved one of the longstanding riddles involving the enigmatic Dead Sea Scrolls, after finally deciphering a hidden script within the texts that has long perplexed researchers.

The advancement of technology in agriculture driven by the need to increase efficiency in production transformed agriculture in an eminently anti-ecological activity, with large-scale use of ...

Calligraphy beetles come in a variety of colors and patterns. ©Monique van Someren/Shutterstock.com Calligraphy beetles belong to the leaf beetle family, Chrysomelidae, and the subfamily Chrysomelinae ...