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 ...