Cylinders discovered in 2004 are inscribed with the earliest known examples of letters, say archaeologists. Clay cylinders ...

The modern Greek word komboloi derives from kombos (knot) and logio (collection) or the verb leo (say). It is said that it is ...

This ancient symbol, also called the Staff of Hermes, depicts two snakes intertwining around a stick that is capped by wings.

Reviewing the symbol’s history, the researchers note that the appearance of a goat-fish hybrid first occurs in Mesopotamian ...

A new study by Dr. Linda Evans and her colleagues from Macquarie University, Australia, published in the Journal of Egyptian ...

Four small, clay tablets, unearthed in 2004, are finally gaining attention as possibly the first evidence of an alphabet, but ...

The Palestinian Ministry of Culture announced on Sunday the registration of the Palestinian kufiya on the intangible heritage ...

Hearts are key symbols in Kingdom Hearts games, representing purity but also desired by villains. Heartless symbols are a corrupted version of hearts, missing emotion and intelligence. Other symbols ...

The periodic table contains an enormous amount of information, but some of the most important are atomic numbers, atomic symbols, and atomic masses. Atomic symbol: The atomic symbol (or element ...

Here’s how it works. The world's oldest known system of writing was influenced by symbols used for trade — engravings found on cylinders used in the exchange of farming produce and textiles ...

Thousands of years ago, our ancestors used symbols to track the sale of textile and agricultural products. New research suggests that these markings informed the development of writing Sarah Kuta ...

“GROWING IN THE mud, and yet so clean, the lotus is a symbol of purity,” writes the Sri Lankan historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in his 1913 book “The Arts and Crafts of India & Ceylon.” The lotus pool ...