Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. According to a new analysis ...

The birth of writing could be 40,000 years earlier than previously thought after scientists found etchings in a German cave.

A new study has revealed that mysterious signs carved onto Paleolithic artifacts up to 40,000 years ago match the information density of the world's earliest known writing system — pushing the deep ...

Berossus, a Babylonian priest writing in Greek, preserved a version of the Sumerian King List that includes rulers said to ...

Researchers have uncovered compelling evidence that Stone Age humans were engraving complex, meaningful symbol systems onto ...

The history of writing down thoughts and feelings could be tens of thousands of years older than previously believed, ...

More than 5,000 years ago, the world’s oldest known writing system emerged in what is now Iraq, establishing the country as ...

Sculptures and tools from the Stone Age show markings that could be an early precursor to written language, according to a new analysis.

Until now it was thought that writing developed in Mesopotamia around 3,000 BCE, followed by hieroglyphics in Egypt and later ...

The origins of writing aren’t set in stone. The ancient cave peoples weren’t as illiterate as portrayed in popular media.

Early European hunter-gatherers developed a sophisticated method of information storage long before the advent of formal ...

Statistical analysis reveals ancient bone carvings hold complex information rivaling early Mesopotamian scripts.