Researchers have uncovered links between the precursor to the world’s oldest writing system and the mysterious, intricate ...

Researchers decipher Babylonian map showing journey to Urartu, believed to be the ark's resting place after the Great Flood.

West Auckland Football Club, of the English Northern League, did once defeat Juventus, although it was long before the ...

Irving Finkel, a curator at the British Museum and an expert in cuneiform, takes a look at a 2900-year-old ... to some of the nerdiest air traffic controllers. There’s a crazy number of Lord of the ...

Researchers have uncovered links between the precursor to the world’s oldest writing system and ... establishing persuasively that a number of (proto-cuneiform) signs have iconographically ...

A new study revives the old argument that ancient seals came before cuneiform, humanity's earliest known example of writing.

Italian researchers suggest that symbols from the oldest writing system in the world may have come directly from cylinder seal motifs.

Researchers investigating how the first writing arose identified the motifs on preliterate "cylinder seals" used in the trade of agricultural products and textiles.