An archaeologist from the University of New Hampshire and her team have collected data which indicates the presence of a large-scale pre-Columbian ...

2000-1900 BCE), pre-dating Amazonian examples by a thousand years or more ... The Crooked Tree Village Council welcomed the research team and permitted them to map and excavate in the wetlands around ...

Four clay cylinders inscribed with what might be the oldest known evidence of alphabetic writing are 500 years older than other early alphabets, according to new research.

A new discovery of the world's oldest known alphabetic writing was made at Tell Umm-el Marra, an urban site in Syria that can ...

In this article, you'll discover the exact coordinates of Nepal, its bordering countries, and gain insight into how its geographical position has shaped its history and development.

In a remarkable archaeological breakthrough, researchers from Johns Hopkins University have uncovered what appears to be the ...

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.

Researchers have discovered evidence of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history. The writing was etched onto clay cylinders discovered during a dig at an ancient Syrian city.

At an archaeological excavation site in western Syria, Schwartz unearthed a “finger-length” clay cylinder with etched ...

New evidence of the world's oldest alphabet, carved onto finger-length clay cylinders, outdates other scripts by 500 years.

The findings suggest that the development of writing was more geographically diverse and occurred earlier than previously ...

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