Early Bronze Age seals from Therasia, Greece may rewrite Aegean history, pointing to the Cyclades as the birthplace of ancient writing.

Up until the time of the Spanish conquest in the 16th century, Inca communities in the Andean highlands used a peculiar form ...

Emperor Qin Shi Huang of the Qin dynasty was the first emperor of ancient China and ruled from 221 B.C. to 210 B.C. He's most ...

In today’s context, the implication seems clear – China’s rise is bound to provoke ... a deterministic law of geopolitics. He was writing a tragedy. Thucydides fought in the Peloponnesian ...

Data from China's Zhurong rover recently ... the largest known crater in the entire solar system. Scientists had speculated Utopia Basin might once have held an ancient ocean, and they thought ...

When geographer Sven Hedin set out from the city of Khotan (today Hotan) in western China, he expected ... some with Brahmi script (a writing system of ancient India). Energized by this proof ...

Scholars consider cuneiform the first writing system, and humans used its characters to inscribe ancient languages such as Sumerian on clay tablets beginning around 3400 B.C. The writing system is ...

In the book, she praises China's protection of the ... For Justman, the biggest challenge in writing her book was locating the ancient Shu Road system itself. With the help of the locals, she ...

For centuries, scholars have puzzled over the origins of the world’s first writing system. Now ... identified individual symbols carved into ancient Mesopotamian seals—used for tracking ...

Back in the fourth millennium, in the city of Uruk in modern day Iraq, an accounting system developed ... way around ancient societies in modern day Iran, Iraq, Syria and Türkiye. “Seals are a key ...

The origins of writing in ancient Mesopotamia and beyond may rest ... cylinder seals like these were used as part of an accounting system. The system tracked the production, storage, and transport ...