Researchers have recently made groundbreaking progress in decoding mysterious symbols found on ancient tablets, potentially unlocking secrets of ancient civilizations. These discoveries could ...

Today, we are bombarded with a never-ending stream of images and logos and symbols. In this time of overstimulation, how do you create symbols that stand out? One designer is looking to the past for ...

When pictures surfaced of James Alex Fields Jr. and others carrying shields with fasces (a bundle of rods or sticks) emblazoned on them at the Charlottesville protests, historians took note. But they ...

Depiction of a relief from Khorsabad, the Assyrian capital during the time of Sargon II. For roughly two centuries, from ca. 900 -- 700 BCE, the Near Eastern empires of Neo-Assyria and Urartu ...