Nov. 19, 2024 — Leveraging a unique statistical analysis and applying it to ancient DNA extracted from human skeletal remains, a team of researchers has revealed new insights into how ancient ...

The early writing appears to date to around 2400 B.C.—preceding the previous most bygone examples by roughly 500 years.

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

What appears to be evidence of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history is etched onto finger-length, clay cylinders ...

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“The cuneiform writing system, which is slightly later than proto, is fully deciphered, we can read it,” says Ferrara. “It records the Sumerian language.” The researchers looked for — and found — ...

Archaeologists have long known that the Maya Lowlands, in the southernmost region of Mexico, harbors ancient urban settings (SN: 10/25/21). When archaeologist Luke Auld-Thomas, of Tulane ...

open image in gallery A proto-cuneiform tablet is seen in this image. Proto-cuneiform was an ancient Mesopotamia writing system that came at the end of the fourth millennium BC (Courtesy of CDLI ...

This discovery supports an older idea. Long ago, in ancient Mesopotamia (now part of Iraq), people developed a writing system known as cuneiform around 3100 B.C. It may have been established as a way ...

Related: 'Extraordinary' burial of ancient Egyptian governor's daughter discovered in a coffin within another coffin Artifacts from the burials include many pieces of jewelry, including necklaces ...