Today, these imprints, pressed into clay tablets over 5,000 years ago, may reveal the secrets behind the birth of writing ...

Scientists have deciphered the world’s oldest map — and they believe it may lead them to the location of Noah’s Ark.

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

The authors suggest these motifs were developed into signs in the proto-cuneiform script seen on 5,000-year-old clay tablets ...

The Babylonian artifact, known as the Imago Mundi, shows a circular diagram with a writing system that used wedge-shaped ...

A completed wall would send a strong message that people wanting to come to the U.S. must make a legal application--and wait ...

That classic symbol of a computer has lasted long after computers evolved into friendly desktop tools. This was not a dream of science fiction, but a representation of ENIAC (Electronic Numerical ...

The hall features more than 5,000 2-by-3-foot panels ... and of course the Unisphere, which is a symbol of the borough of Queens. With the Hall of Science’s expansion over the years, the Great ...

The American Plains bison (Bison bison) is an iconic symbol of the American West ... The YNP bison population reached a maximum of 5000 animals in 2005 (Plumb et al. 2009), but if it had continued ...

The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.

Students come to his department at the Technical University of Munich because it’s one of the few places in this nation of beer drinkers to get a degree in brewing science. Some of Germany’s ...

The authors suggest these motifs were developed into signs in the proto-cuneiform script seen on 5,000-year-old clay tablets from the southern Mesopotamian city of Uruk. These include symbols ...