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

New research shows early humans created structured ancient symbol systems 40,000 years ago, long before formal writing ...

Strange symbols carved onto a Stone Age mammoth ivory plate found at a cave in southwest Germany could be the earliest known ...

Bent over a slab of dark granite, carefully chiselling the name of the deceased with practiced precision, 54-year-old Abdul Aziz Kadkol represents a fading tradition of hand-crafted stone carving that ...

One of the latest projects is a new travertine façade for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in New York ...

Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. According to a new analysis by linguist Christian Bentz at Saarland University and archaeologist Ewa ...

Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. According to a new analysis by linguist Christian Bentz at Saarland University and archaeologist Ewa ...

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

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

The discovery could rewrite our understanding of North American human dispersion and and provide some insight into famed ...

This experiment set out to recreate the finishing tools craftspeople used before sandpaper existed, then compare how each one actually performs on wood and rusted steel. Using forged scrapers, ...