40,000-year-old Stone Age symbols may have paved the way for writing, long before Mesopotamia

Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. According to a new analysis ...

40,000-year-old markings may be the roots of script

German discovery of Stone Age art may reveal a precursor to writing ...

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Symbols found carved into 40,000-year-old artifacts may be precursor to writing

Sculptures and tools from the Stone Age show markings that could be an early precursor to written language, according to a new analysis.
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Signs on Stone Age objects: Precursor to written language dates back 40,000 years

Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. According to a new analysis by linguist Christian Bentz at Saarland University and archaeologist Ewa ...

‘Scream 7’ doesn’t have same sharp edge as in past films

It took seven movies, but all the originality Kevin Williamson packed into the original script for “Scream” back in 1996 has ...

Humans could have been ‘writing’ 40,000 years earlier than anyone thought

Researchers have uncovered compelling evidence that Stone Age humans were engraving complex, meaningful symbol systems onto ...

40,000-year-old German artifacts may display written language precursor

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Feb 24 (Reuters) - A small object called the Adorant figurine discovered in a cave in Germany in 1979 - crafted roughly 40,000 years ago by some of the earliest people to ...

7 ways Nano Banana 2 just got better and faster - how to try Google's latest image model

7 ways Nano Banana 2 just got better and faster - how to try Google's latest image model ...
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40,000-year-old signs show humans were recording information long before writing

More than 40,000 years ago, Ice Age humans were carving repeated patterns of dots, lines, and crosses into tools and small ivory figurines. A new computational study of more than 3,000 of these ...

These mysterious Stone Age symbols from 40,000 years ago could be writing’s earliest predecessors

Strange symbols carved onto a Stone Age mammoth ivory plate found at a cave in southwest Germany could be the earliest known ...

CISA warns that RESURGE malware can be dormant on Ivanti devices

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released new details about RESURGE, a malicious implant used in zero-day attacks exploiting CVE-2025-0282 to breach Ivanti Connect ...