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

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

With hours to go before America votes, Trump’s surrogates spent their time building up a myth around a squirrel.

Nov. 7, 2024 — Plastic pollution exacerbates the impacts of all planetary boundaries, including climate change, ocean acidification and biodiversity loss, a new paper shows. Ahead of the final ...

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

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Cats are quicker than babies to associate a picture of a word with its corresponding picture, new research shows.

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

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

The book follows a child named Handala who is pictured in the cartoons witnessing the different events depicted, and who has since become a symbol of Palestinian defiance. Al-Ali has been dubbed ...

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