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 ...

The origins of writing aren’t set in stone. The ancient cave peoples weren’t as illiterate as portrayed in popular media.

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

“The artifacts date back to tens of thousands of years before the first writing systems, to the time when Homo sapiens left Africa, settled in Europe, and encountered Neanderthal,” explained Ewa ...

Statistical analysis reveals ancient bone carvings hold complex information rivaling early Mesopotamian scripts.

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Robert Kelly is managing director of XTS ...

Amazingly, this highly conventional system of signs appears to have been used for a period of almost 10,000 years before vanishing, only to be re-developed by the Sumerians many millennia later and ...