Thousands of years ago, our ancestors used symbols to track the sale of textile and agricultural products. New research ...

A link exists between 6,000-year-old engravings on cylindrical seals used on clay tablets and cuneiform, the world’s oldest ...

Making the jump from using symbols to writing is considered a major development in human cognitive abilities. Tracing how and ...

Researchers have made another major stride in understanding humanity’s origins of writing. In Mesopotamia, the birthplace of civilization, the earliest known writing system started around 3,000 BCE.

In the dusty city states of ancient Mesopotamia, long before the advent of written language, mysterious symbols etched into ...

At small or minority-serving institutions, time and resources that are needed to draft successful grant proposals are often ...

“The invention of writing marks the transition between prehistory and history ... posited the link 30 years ago. She told ...

Researchers investigating how the first writing arose identified the motifs on preliterate "cylinder seals" used in the trade of agricultural products and textiles.

On ancient cylinders, 6000 years old, researchers believed that they found a link between these ancient seals used in very ...

OpenAI co-founder and incumbent CEO Sam Altman has predicted the arrival of artificial general intelligence (AGI) is just ...

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