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A chance discovery by French soldiers in Egypt in 1799 unearthed a stone block bearing inscriptions in three ancient scripts.
Fragments of the oldest rune stone in the world were found in an ancient Norwegian burial ground Inscriptions on the stones were determined to be the earliest known form of runic writing, which could ...
In the spring of 2020, Graham Senior was pulling weeds in his garden in Coventry, England, when he unearthed a rock with some unusual markings. He didn’t know exactly what he’d stumbled upon, but he ...
ONGOLE: An 11th-century Telugu inscription dating back about 1,100 years has been discovered near Sathakodu village in the ...
A gardener in the U.K. found a rock with 1,600-year-old ogham inscription, an early alphabet for the Irish language. Now, it’s on display. Screengrab from the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum's Facebook A ...
A marble slab with a Latin inscription found in the garden of a private home in New Orleans, USA, has been identified as a tombstone created approximately 1,900 years ago to commemorate Sextus ...
Among the most remarkable newly discovered artefacts is a rare stone inscription engraved with the name of Umar ibn Al-Khattab, the second Caliph in Islam ...
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