Rows of tiny crosses and dots run along the flank of a mammoth no bigger than your palm. Someone carved it from a tusk around ...

A statistical analysis of a series of signs carved into artifacts from around 40,000 years ago suggests humans developed ...

Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. According to a new analysis ...

A new scientific article on the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age periods in the Khorramabad Valley has been published in the latest issue of the journal of the National Museum of Iran, the head of Lorestan ...

More than 40,000 years ago, Ice Age humans were carving repeated patterns of dots, lines, and crosses into tools and small ivory figurines. A new computational study of more than 3,000 of these ...

A new study has revealed that mysterious signs carved onto Paleolithic artifacts up to 40,000 years ago match the information density of the world's earliest known writing system — pushing the deep ...

The birth of writing could be 40,000 years earlier than previously thought after scientists found etchings in a German cave.

Until now it was thought that writing developed in Mesopotamia around 3,000 BCE, followed by hieroglyphics in Egypt and later in China and Mesoamerica. "The Stone Age sign sequences are an early ...

The origins of writing aren’t set in stone. The ancient cave peoples weren’t as illiterate as portrayed in popular media.

A BJP MP has demanded that New Delhi be named Indraprastha. But how did Indraprastha, associated with the Pandavas of Mahabharata, get the name Delhi? The etymological roots can be traced back to over ...

Ancient carvings once thought decorative may actually be early attempts to record information. Their statistical complexity matches that of proto-cuneiform, pushing the origins of writing-like systems ...

We are still clawing back some of the things we lost in the pandemic. Saint John’s — Capitol Hill’s only queer dinosaur eatery — is doing brunch again. Part of the neighborhood ...