Anthropologists have spent decades documenting a mysterious collection of symbols etched into the Peruvian desert, depicting everything from human decapitation and domesticated animals to ...

A link exists between 6,000-year-old engravings on cylindrical seals used on clay tablets and cuneiform, the world’s oldest ...

Thousands of years ago, our ancestors used symbols to track the sale of textile and agricultural products. New research ...

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In the dusty city states of ancient Mesopotamia, long before the advent of written language, mysterious symbols etched into ...

Before Mesopotamian people invented writing, they used cylinder seals to press patterns into wet clay – and some of the ...

Research suggests ancient Mesopotamian trade symbols found on cylinder seals contributed to the development of proto-cuneiform writing.

So, the first question driving an intriguing, though controversial, new study was: “Did seal imagery contribute significantly ...

Co-authors Kathryn Kelley and Mattia Cartolano from the University of Bologna's Department of Classical Philology and Italian ...

Written by the former chief historian of NASA, the book examines the evolution of our cosmic understanding—from early civilizations to the present day ...

The 2,000-year-old geoglyphs offer clues to the ancient Nazca people and their rituals.

Not only do some of the symbols match exactly, but they also appear to convey the same meanings in relation to ancient transactions and trade. “Our findings demonstrate that the designs engraved ...