Two 4,500-year-old seal impressions discovered on a Cycladic island may overturn everything we know about the birth of writing in the Aegean ...

An underground cave in Meghalaya, in focus for a conflict over a Shivalinga-like stone formation, has yielded a new-to-science fish that adapts to streams overground.

Archaeologists recover rare Tlacotepehua artifacts from Tlayócoc cave, Mexico, thanks to a discovery by a local guide and a Russian speleologist.

The skeleton of a Stone Age child discovered in Thailand is rewriting what experts know about the prehistory of the area.

Dave Caserio, local writer and educator, is leading a writing workshop at Pictograph Cave State Park on Saturday, Dec. 21, from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Pictograph Cave State Park is located just ...

When you're zooming down the highway, seeing billboards, strip malls, and gas stations whipping by, it can be hard to imagine the ancient history of the United States and the people who lived here ...

While humans have been making their mark on the surfaces of this Earth for at least tens of thousands of years, it's difficult to pinpoint the exact moment our impulse to record what we saw tipped ...

The World’s Earliest Writing System May Have Been Influenced by Older Symbols Found on Stone ‘Cylinder Seals’ Thousands of years ago, our ancestors used symbols to track the sale of textile ...

Researchers have uncovered links between the precursor to the world’s oldest writing system and the mysterious, intricate designs left behind by engraved cylindrical seals that were rolled across clay ...