What were books like in ancient Greece and Rome?

In different passage, Aulus tells us about some bookstalls he came across when he arrived by ship at the port of Brundisium ...
Newsweek

Scientists Decode Ancient Script That Has Puzzled Scholars for 70 Years

Researchers have managed to decode an ancient script that scholars have been unable to understand for decades. In a study published in the journal Transactions of the Philological Society, a team of ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Have Scholars Finally Deciphered a Mysterious Ancient Script?

Over the past century, archaeologists have uncovered more than 1,600 Proto-Elamite inscriptions, but only about 43 in Linear Elamite, scattered widely across Iran. Illustration by Meilan Solly / ...

Five lessons about misinformation from ancient Greek and Roman scientists

Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, often described as the West's first scientist, believed the whole Earth was suspended on ...