Explainer: China's Liangzhu, window to one of world's oldest civilizations
On the UNESCO world heritage map for five years China archaeological ruins of Liangzhu in parallel with the Aegean Civilization in Greece has gaine ...
World's Oldest Alphabet Writings Discovered In Syria, Archaeologists Claim
Long before alphabets came into existence, human civilisations used different means to communicate such as images and ...
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Archaeology breakthrough as darkest secret of world's oldest map finally unearthed
Historians have decoded inscriptions on an ancient tablet that is believed to be the oldest surviving map of the world. Reading the Babylonian relic, which includes a circular map accompanied by text ...
Ancient Clay Cylinders Reveal What May Be World's Oldest Alphabetic Writing
The early writing appears to date to around 2400 B.C.—preceding the previous most bygone examples by roughly 500 years.
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Mapping minds: brain activity data can be used for smart city planning
Cities are undoubtedly at the core of our civilization, from the earliest traces of urban settlements built over 6,000 years ...
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Clay Cylinders May Rewrite The Timeline On The Origins Of The Alphabet
Although far from the oldest writing we have found, these cylinders are 500 years older than any previously known example of alphabetic script, if that is indeed what they carry.
Ancient writing — using possibly ‘oldest known alphabet’ — unearthed in Syria. See it
At an archaeological excavation site in western Syria, Schwartz unearthed a “finger-length” clay cylinder with etched ...
Oldest known alphabet unearthed in ancient Syrian city
What appears to be evidence of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history is etched onto finger-length, clay cylinders ...
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The Louvre’s department of Byzantine and Eastern Christian art is taking shape—at last
The Musée du Louvre aims to bring these treasures closer to the public with a new department of Byzantine and Eastern ...