A new exhibition by the National Museum of Ireland features 17 ancient manuscripts with margin scribbles by Irish monks from ...

The origins of writing in ancient Mesopotamia and beyond may rest on a group of cylindrical seals. A team of archeologists from the University of Bologna in Italy has identified a series of ...

While humans have been making their mark on the surfaces of this Earth for at least tens of thousands of years, it's difficult to pinpoint the exact moment our impulse to record what we saw tipped ...

Sumerians weren’t the only prehistoric people to conceive of writing, but as history has it, they were first. Proto-cuneiform arose between 3,350 and 3,000 C.E. in the city of Uruk, in present ...

Remote Ancient Mountain Shelter Used by Viking Age Travelers Found Published Sep 25, 2024 at 2:46 PM EDT Updated Sep 25, 2024 at 7:54 PM EDT By Aristos Georgiou ...

SAN DIEGO (CN) — The Rosetta Stone for deciphering and tracing the origins of one of humankind’s earliest writing systems might just be cylindrical seals used to imprint images onto a series of ...