A finger-sized clay cylinder from a tomb in northern Syria appears to be the oldest example of writing using an alphabet ...

Found etched into clay cylinders in Syria, the strange symbols date to around 2400 B.C.E.—500 years before other known ...

LOMBARDY, ITALY—La Brújula Verde reports that a hiker in 2017 noticed petroglyphs at the foot of the Pizzo Tresero glacier in Lombardy's Stelvio National Park, nearly 10,000 feet above sealevel ...

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA—Researchers have identified evidence of human activity in Tasmania 41,600 years ago, according to a report in Cosmos Magazine. This finding pushes back the earliest known ...

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In writing the book, Biggers, whose work has appeared in American and foreign newspapers and magazines as well as numerous ...

Learn how early humans employed specialized fire pits to create resins needed to attach stone tool parts to wooden shafts.

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When the U.S. government sent the Tsukamoto family to an incarceration camp in 1942, one neighbor stepped up to save the farms they left behind, giving them something to come home to The devices ...

In 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed into law the Indian Removal Act that led to the Trail of Tears—a death march that ...

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Researchers’ work to uncover Bermuda’s colonial history has been highlighted in a cover story for December’s Smithsonian ...