A Roman shield — painted with scenes from the Trojan War and possibly used in parades during ancient times — is being brought to light in a whole new way by a Yale team over 2,000 years after it was created and 80 years after it was excavated.Shield...
Analyzing ancient texts on cuneiform, or clay tablets, may seem like an esoteric endeavor.Not so, say the scholars working on the Yale Cuneiform Commentaries Project (CCP). They argue that these are just some of the first traces of a tradition that is...