Joshua Hammer’s “The Mesopotamian Riddle” chronicles the 19th-century contest between an archaeologist, a soldier and a clergyman to decipher an ancient text ...

State Sens. Angela McKnight and Shirley Turner want to bring cursive writing back to New Jersey's public schools. Some ...

Europeans began sending ships to distant Asian ports for things like spices, tea, silk, cotton, diamonds, pearls and ivory.

Every history nerd dreams of finding an old message in a bottle, whether the bottle is floating in the ocean or concealed in ...