Age dating suggests the artifacts were deposited on the site around 650 B.C., about 350 years before the date of specimens previously thought to be the earliest examples of Mesoamerican writing.

Cuneiform, the earliest known writing system, was invented in Mesopotamia around 3100 B.C.E. Before cuneiform, humans used proto-cuneiform, a simpler system that appeared around 3350 to 3000 B.C.E.

They found evidence of sophisticated cognitive abilities on artifacts from as far back as 70,000 years ago. Here’s what ...

Some of the seals examined in the new study date to about 4400 B.C. — more than 1,000 years before the development of writing. "We focused on seal imagery that originated before the invention of ...

The writing system is thought to have originated from Mesopotamia, the region where the world’s earliest known civilization developed that’s now modern-day Iraq.

The writing system is thought to have originated from Mesopotamia, the region where the world’s earliest known civilization developed that’s now modern-day Iraq.

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 ...

Does Stone Age Cave Art Contain The World’s Earliest Writing And Lunar Calendars? After 45,000 years we're still arguing about the meaning of these ancient artworks. Benjamin Taub ...

The ancient stone, which archaeologists unearthed in Norway, could contain the earliest example of "words recorded in writing in Scandinavia." They made the find in late 2021 while excavating a ...

Some of the seals examined in the new study date to about 4400 B.C. — more than 1,000 years before the development of writing. "We focused on seal imagery that originated before the invention of ...