Radiocarbon dating of ancient scripts suggests a groundbreaking origin story.

Archaeologists working on Easter Island say a recent discovery could change long-standing ideas about the island’s past. The finding involves ancient wooden tablets covered in mysterious glyphs that ...

Radiocarbon dating of Rongorongo tablets suggests the pictorial script could represent one of the rarest independent ...

Finding out what actually happened in the deep past can be a slog, so when ancient history is packaged as mystery—spine-tingling but solvable—it’s hard to resist. Who doesn’t want to know how a lost ...