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 ...

Making the jump from using symbols to writing is considered a major development in human cognitive abilities. Tracing how and ...

Researchers have made another major stride in understanding humanity’s origins of writing. In Mesopotamia, the birthplace of civilization, the earliest known writing system started around 3,000 BCE.

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

On ancient cylinders, 6000 years old, researchers believed that they found a link between these ancient seals used in very ...

A new lawsuit has been filed against the Westchester School District after a former teacher was charged with sexually abusing ...

At small or minority-serving institutions, time and resources that are needed to draft successful grant proposals are often ...

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

During my first two years of college, I spent countless hours reading philosophical texts, writing pages after pages of ...

Soon the duo—with their backgrounds in data organizing and computer science—was building an artificial intelligence startup.