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The World’s Earliest Writing System May Have Been Influenced by Older Symbols Found on Stone ‘Cylinder Seals’Thousands of years ago, our ancestors used symbols to track the sale of textile and agricultural products. New research ...
New genetic analysis reveals complex mating behaviors in black-necked cranes, challenging folklore that portrays them as ...
A link exists between 6,000-year-old engravings on cylindrical seals used on clay tablets and cuneiform, the world’s oldest ...
The 2,000-year-old geoglyphs offer clues to the ancient Nazca people and their rituals.
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Origins of world's earliest writing point to symbols on 'seals' used in Mesopotamian tradeThese include symbols depicting a building ... there is no obvious causal relationship that would link the one with the other ...
Earth is the only known place where humanity exists — where humanity can exist. It is the only known place where laughter, ...
Making the jump from using symbols to writing is considered a major development in human cognitive abilities. Tracing how and ...
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Father-daughter team decodes 'alien signal' from Mars that stumped the world for a yearA father and daughter team based in the U.S. have decoded a mock "alien signal" beamed from ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter a year ago — but the meaning of the extraterrestrial message remains a ...
Scientists measure the variability in musical pieces. Music is widely known to evoke emotions, but how exactly do these ...
In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, a linguist is faced with the daunting task of deciphering an alien language ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty ... Today we start digging into the meaning of a historic ...
While the real motivations of the young woman remain unclear, for many people from the Islamic Republic, she already embodies ...
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