ESTABLISHED in 1911, China’s Tsinghua University, and Universiti Malaya (UM), the country’s oldest and highest ranked ...

Thousands of years ago, our ancestors used symbols to track the sale of textile and agricultural products. New research suggests that these markings informed the development of writing Sarah Kuta ...

Some of the symbols on these cylinder seals correspond to those used in proto-cuneiform, a form of proto-writing used in Mesopotamia. The finding indicates that the invention of writing in ...

A series of 5,000-year-old mysterious symbols imprinted on ancient cylinder seals made before recorded history could help researchers finally decode large portions of the world’s first written ...

But the origins of proto-cuneiform’s emergence have been murky, and many of its symbols remain undeciphered. Researchers conducting a careful analysis of proto-cuneiform symbols were surprised ...

Here’s how it works. The world's oldest known system of writing was influenced by symbols used for trade — engravings found on cylinders used in the exchange of farming produce and textiles ...

From election rallies to news articles, US elections see the Democratic and Republican parties often represented through the symbols of donkeys and elephants, respectively. But why exactly is that?

A weapon was transformed into an arch, a symbol of divine protection. Though moral failings would still bring consequences, humanity came to understand that God’s desire was not to punish ...

As Hindus in the D.C. area and worldwide celebrate the five-day holiday Diwali, they want to bring back their sacred symbol: the swastika. Niti Srivastava, executive director of the Indian ...