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

Mysterious signs engraved on objects reveal that a form of proto-writing may have been used in Europe 40,000 years ago, tens of thousands of years before the emergence of a full writing system ...

Ancient carvings once thought decorative may actually be early attempts to record information. Their statistical complexity matches that of proto-cuneiform, pushing the origins of writing-like systems ...

Traumatic injury is the third leading cause of death in the state of Texas, surpassing strokes, Alzheimer's disease and diabetes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A massive ...

Researchers are using clay-derived nanosilicates integrated into an expandable shape-memory nanocomposite to create ...

A recent brief survey of young people (under the age of 40) revealed they had no knowledge of the true pioneers of mas. To ...

Daniel and the Lions’ Den. Do you recall the details? Did angels sweep Daniel from danger or were the lions kind to him? Did […] ...

Built around 2100 BCE, the Great Ziggurat of Ur stood at the heart of one of the world’s earliest cities. Dedicated to the ...

New research from the University of Portsmouth reveals that during the Great Plague of 1665, Londoners relied on published death statistics to make critical daily decisions about where to go, whom to ...

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