A historian may have deciphered the meaning of a mysterious set of symbols found on temples in an ancient city built around 2,700 years ago. The symbols, made of glazed brick, were used to ...

An Algerian court on Thursday sentenced historian Mohamed Amine Belghit to five years in prison for offending national ...

Others, like Cherokee, use symbols that represent syllables. The first alphabet was invented in ancient Egypt , more than 5,000 years ago, and was developed to record religious texts.

Historian Michael König appears to have been one of the first people to notice the resemblance between the “44” and the symbol for the “Schutzstaffel,” also known as the SS, which was ...