From 3500–3000 B.C., the Sumerians of ancient Mesopotamia, in what is now Iraq, carved wedge-shaped signs on clay tablets with reed pens. These are cuneiform, the oldest known writing system. The ...

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 ...

Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. According to a new analysis by linguist Christian Bentz at Saarland University and archaeologist Ewa ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 24 (Reuters) - A small object called the Adorant figurine discovered in a cave in Germany in 1979 - crafted roughly 40,000 years ago by some of the earliest people to establish a ...

Humans have been studying and playing with light for millennia — from the ancient civilizations using rock crystals to magnify objects and focus sunlight to ignite fires, to Galileo who sparked the ...

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Symbols and markings carved into tools and figurines by Stone Age humans over 40,000 years ago could be an ancient precursor to writing, according to a new analysis. The marks, found on 260 artifacts ...

Stone Age people 40,000 years ago used a simple form of writing comparable in complexity to the earliest stages of the world’s first writing system, cuneiform, according to a study of mysterious signs ...

A SYSTEM OF caves in the Swabian Jura, a mountain range in what is now southwest Germany, offers archaeologists a window onto the life of the first anatomically modern Europeans. Between 43,000 and 34 ...

The team analyzed 260 engraved objects discovered in caves in what is now southwest Germany, including this 40,000-year-old mammoth figurine. Universität Tübingen / Hildegard Jensen, CC-BY-SA 4.0 ...

The history of writing down thoughts and feelings could be tens of thousands of years older than previously believed, surprising archaeologists who made the discovery. The researchers discerned ...

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