Throughout history, civilizations across the world have created materials that were way ahead of their times using limited tools and resources. Be it monumental architecture or complex materials ...

The early writing appears to date to around 2400 B.C.—preceding the previous most bygone examples by roughly 500 years.

Before Mesopotamian people invented writing, they used cylinder seals to press patterns into wet clay – and some of the symbols used were carried over into proto-writing ...

The origins of writing in ancient Mesopotamia and beyond may rest on a group of cylindrical seals. A team of archeologists from the University of Bologna in Italy has identified a series of ...

Ancient Egypt in North Africa was one of the most powerful and influential civilizations in the region for over 3,000 years, from around 3100 B.C to 30 B.C.

Ancient mathematical texts that played a key role in constructing the Roman empire will be transformed for the 21st century ...

AN awe-inspiring discovery of the oldest known alphabet has been found in a tomb by a group of archaeologists. The ancient writing was found on several clay cylinders, each the length of a finger, … ...

What appears to be evidence of some of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history is etched onto finger-length, clay cylinders excavated from a tomb in Syria by a team of Johns Hopkins University ...

AI analysis of Dead Sea Scroll fragments suggests some of the ancient manuscripts are up to 100 years older than once thought. Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory ...

World's oldest ALPHABET is discovered: Ancient 4,400-year-old text is found on clay cylinders from a tomb in Syria - and it upends everything we thought we knew about the origin of writing ...