Like the cylindrical seals, proto-cuneiform was used for accounting and bureaucratic purposes but many of the 800 identifiable proto-cuneiform pictographs aren’t yet decipherable. "The close ...

While humans have been making their mark on the surfaces of this Earth for at least tens of thousands of years, it's ...

The Australian Museum’s new exhibition, Machu Picchu and the Golden Empires of Peru, includes a complex inventory system ...

Sep. 25, 2024 — Scientists successfully extracted and analyzed DNA from ancient cheese samples found alongside the Tarim Basin mummies in China, dating back approximately 3,600 years.

Accounting’s history is as old as civilisation itself, evolving from simple record-keeping to sophisticated systems powered by innovative technology. In ...

At the National Museum of China visitors queued up to catch a glimpse of the true appearance of the renowned empress phoenix ...

researchers believed that they found a link between these ancient seals used in very ancient accounting and the “proto-cuneiform script” from the city of Uruk, now modern-day Iraq. So ...

For centuries, scholars have puzzled over the origins of the world’s first writing system. Now, a study by Italian researchers reveals that some of these earliest proto-cuneiform signs may have ...

At the National Museum of China visitors queued up to catch a glimpse of the true appearance of the renowned empress phoenix coronet thanks to a fri ...

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