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Archaeologists working in the depths of Kateřinská Cave have made a series of remarkable discoveries that challenge our understanding of ancient human activity in Central Europe. Recent excavations ...

In our NewsHour Shares video of the day, artist Seb Lester shares his thoughts on the “ancient magic” of calligraphy. My name is Seb Lester. I'm a designer and artist, and I work in the United Kingdom ...

A Norwin instructional aide who has mastered the art of calligraphy — an elegant handwriting style practiced centuries ago in China, Greece, Rome and Egypt — is sharing her expertise with today’s ...

Visitors watch ancient Chinese calligraphy and painting works at Suzhou Museum in Suzhou of east China's Jiangsu province, Nov 6, 2012. Gathered from 15 museums from home and abroad, 50 pieces of ...

In the year 992, Zhao Jiong, an emperor of the Song Dynasty (960-1279), ordered the compendiums of fine calligraphy from various dynasties in the royal collection. The featured pieces were engraved on ...

They’ve not only mastered the art of ancient calligraphy from disparate parts of the world, but Meredith W. McPherson and Mohamed Zakariya both infuse a style of their own into their craft — now on ...

Ancient Cuneiform Script found in a Czech cave surprises researchers as they investigate whether it reflects lost cultural links.

As civilizations die, so do their forms of writing, top scholars of ancient cultures found in the first study to examine the extinction of writing systems. The research also showed that ancient ...

SANTA CRUZ — While a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, UC Santa Cruz history professor Elaine Sullivan unearthed ancient artifacts in Syria marked with an alphabetic script whose meaning ...