In a paper published in PNAS, they reveal not only that these ancient carvings were applied in an intentional, systematic ...

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

The scaling of energy infrastructure in the US is crucial to meet the growing demand for electricity. Writing systems evolved ...

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 ...

Strange symbols carved onto a Stone Age mammoth ivory plate found at a cave in southwest Germany could be the earliest known ...

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 ...

New research shows early humans created structured ancient symbol systems 40,000 years ago, long before formal writing ...

Professor Abdolmajid Arfaei, a distinguished researcher, a specialist in ancient Akkadian and Elamite languages, and the first Iranian translator of the Achaemenid royal inscription on the ...

German discovery of Stone Age art may reveal a precursor to writing ...

An object called the Adorant figurine discovered in a cave in Germany — crafted roughly 40,000 years ago by some of the ...