They're ancient and almost impossible to read but Selena Wisnom has deciphered enough Cuneiform to show just how similar life was for our ancient ancestors.

A ground-breaking new study suggests an early form of writing emerged thousands of years before experts previously thought. The sequences of mysterious signs and symbols carved onto artefacts found in ...

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

In a paper published in PNAS, they reveal not only that these ancient carvings were applied in an intentional, systematic ...

Sculptures and tools from the Stone Age show markings that could be an early precursor to written language, according to a ...

Researchers have discovered signs of a Paleolithic writing precursor in ancient tools and sculptures dating back 40,000 years ...

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 ...

New discoveries of Stone Age symbols in Germany could push back the history of writing by over 30,000 years, potentially ...

For 40,000 years, these bone-carved figurines lay silent, until now, exposing a lost story of our prehistoric ancestors.

Despite the structural parallels to protocuneiform, the researchers caution that the Ice Age markings are not akin to later scripts that encode speech, and they do not attempt to read the signs. Still ...

New research shows early humans created structured ancient symbol systems 40,000 years ago, long before formal writing appeared.

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 establish a distinct culture in Europe - bears ...