For centuries, the meaning of the mysterious and mystical Egyptian hieroglyphs baffled the greatest minds in the world. Then, in 1799, the discovery of the most famous piece of rock in archaeology ...
It is our pleasure to announce that the Ancient and Medieval Middle East (AMME) seminar that was postponed in the spring will be organised as a hybrid event on Thursday 20 October (16:15-18:00 ...
Why did Maya writing remain undecipherable for so long and how was it finally cracked? Find out how this long enigmatic script was finally deciphered and how centuries of recorded Maya history were ...
In the second AMME seminar of the fall semester, we celebrated the Rosetta Stone bicentennial with two presentations on deciphering ancient scripts. The presentations by Dr. Thomas Christiansen ...