Thousands of years ago, our ancestors used symbols to track the sale of textile and agricultural products. New research ...

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Co-authors Kathryn Kelley and Mattia Cartolano from the University of Bologna's Department of Classical Philology and Italian ...

Anthropologists have spent decades documenting a mysterious collection of symbols etched into the Peruvian desert, depicting everything from human decapitation and domesticated animals to ...

According to the Federal Reserve Board, the central banking system of the US, the US officially adopted the dollar sign in ...

A link exists between 6,000-year-old engravings on cylindrical seals used on clay tablets and cuneiform, the world’s oldest ...

Making the jump from using symbols to writing is considered a major development in human cognitive abilities. Tracing how and ...

Researchers investigating how the first writing arose identified the motifs on preliterate "cylinder seals" used in the trade of agricultural products and textiles.

The 2,000-year-old geoglyphs offer clues to the ancient Nazca people and their rituals.