This catastrophic event blanketed the area in ash, preserving many of the bodies and structures beneath its layers. Now, ancient DNA collected from the famed body casts alters the history that’s been ...
Mesopotamian trade symbols may be origins of proto-cuneiform. Cylinder seals linked trade to early script development. Study shows transition from trade symbols to structured writing.
Anthropologists have spent decades documenting a mysterious collection of symbols etched into the Peruvian desert, depicting everything from human decapitation and domesticated animals to knife ...
Archaeologists have long known that the Maya Lowlands, in the southernmost region of Mexico, harbors ancient urban settings (SN: 10/25/21). When archaeologist Luke Auld-Thomas, of Tulane ...
From viewing the skies as religious symbols, to astronomer Galileo ... When will there be a new moon? When will there not?” Like other ancient civilizations, they were interested in calculating ...