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.” ...

Although far from the oldest writing we have found, these cylinders are 500 years older than any previously known example of alphabetic script, if that is indeed what they carry.

Long before the “A, B, C Song” — built upon the Latin alphabet — and the alphas, betas and gammas of Ancient Greek, cultures around the world were communicating with one another. The Sumerians of ...

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

Israel may be humanity's earliest wheels, revolutionizing textile spinning and showcasing ancient Natufian innovation.

Findings indicate the wheel evolved due to mining environment challenges, akin to selective pressures in biological evolution ...

About 2,500 years ago, Babylonian traders in Mesopotamia impressed two slanted wedges into clay tablets ... No longer a placeholder, the digit acquired a value and found its place on the number line, ...

About 2,500 years ago, Babylonian traders in Mesopotamia impressed two slanted wedges into clay tablets ... No longer a placeholder, the digit acquired a value and found its place on the number line, ...

Archaeological findings in Israel push the wheel's origins back to 12,000 years ago, reshaping our understanding of early ...

According to preliminary assumptions, the first samples of wheels date back to about 4000 BC in Mesopotamia, modern Iraq, ...

UK, Nov 13 - Researchers discover that ancient Mesopotamian trade seals could contain the first clues to the world's oldest ...