The video of an 800-year-old object that appears to resemble a mobile phone, and discovered by archaeologists during a dig in Austria, has gone up viral on social media. The object is believed to be a clay copy of the mobile phone with a Sumerian writing style on its keys. Sumerian was an ancient language spoken in around 2000 BC but was forgotten by the 19th century. On the other […]

  Just days after four Magna Cartas were united for the first time in 800 years at the British Library in London, another ancient version of the document has been discovered by chance in a medieval coastal town in England. Mark Bateson, an archivist in Sandwich, southern England, found the previously unknown version of the Magna Carta — which established the principle that everybody, including the king, was subject to […]