While humans have been making their mark on the surfaces of this Earth for at least tens of thousands of years, it's ...

One of the earliest writing systems in the world may have been influenced by symbols engraved on ancient “cylinder seals.” ...

A finger-sized clay cylinder from a tomb in northern Syria appears to be the oldest example of writing using an alphabet ...

The early writing appears to date to around 2400 B.C.—preceding the previous most bygone examples by roughly 500 years.

Found etched into clay cylinders in Syria, the strange symbols date to around 2400 B.C.E.—500 years before other known ...

It now lies in the British Museum, and researchers finally think they have decoded it. Curator Irving Finkel says that the cuneiform writing on the tablet tells of the ancient Babylonians' beliefs and ...

THE Sumerians they were a sedentary population of the ancient world, lived in Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq) over the ...

Google’s internal pedagogy and learning sciences team conferred with a range of experts, such as researchers and ...

Soon to be on display at the National Museum of American History, the laptop is the centerpiece of a criminal case that shows ...

In the early 2000s, archaeologists excavating a tomb at Tell Umm-el Marra, a site 35 miles east of Aleppo, Syria, discovered ...

It’s also a possibility that some civilizations rotted from the inside through a general system collapse. Scholars have noted ...

Alex: OK, let me try to persuade you. For example, consider reading tests. I took the SAT 20 years ago on paper; Rick, you ...