40,000-year-old Paleolithic carvings may be the precursor to human writing

Rows of tiny crosses and dots run along the flank of a mammoth no bigger than your palm. Someone carved it from a tusk around ...
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Ancient Cuneiform Tablets Become Readable With New Automatic Text Recognition Tool

To unlock the secrets of ancient civilizations, a new artificial intelligence (AI) application has emerged, breathing new life into deciphering ancient cuneiform tablets. This AI technology utilizes ...

Patterns on mammoth tusks help to retell history of writing

The history of writing down thoughts and feelings could be tens of thousands of years older than previously believed, ...
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Archaeologists Finally Decoded a 4,000-Year-Old Tablet—and It Warns, 'A King Will Die'

Not the exact thing you want to read on an ancient tablet if you happen to be any sort of superstitious. But it’s one of several omens that a group of archaeologists read when they finally deciphered ...
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Decoding Babylon: 4 Discoveries That Transformed Our View of the Ancient Empire

Cuneiform tablets from ancient Mesopotamia cover a range of topics, from exorcising ghosts to uncovering the location of Noah’s Ark. Cuneiform tablet, c. 2nd–1st century B.C.E., Mesopotamia, probably ...
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Omens Written on Cuneiform Tablets Translated

LONDON, ENGLAND—Four-thousand-year-old cuneiform tablets have been found to predict omens using the time of night, movement of shadows, and the date and duration of eclipses, according to a Live ...
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Archaeologists unearth tiny 3,500-year-old clay tablet following an earthquake

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Archaeologists have ...
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Carvings made 40,000 years ago were 'precursor' to written word

German researchers examined more than 3,000 signs found on 260 objects to reveal insights on the origins of writing. The post ...

Writing May Have Begun 40,000 Years Ago

Ancient carvings once thought decorative may actually be early attempts to record information. Their statistical complexity matches that of proto-cuneiform, pushing the origins of writing-like systems ...
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40,000-year-old signs show humans were recording information long before writing

More than 40,000 years ago, Ice Age humans were carving repeated patterns of dots, lines, and crosses into tools and small ivory figurines. A new computational study of more than 3,000 of these ...

Humans could have been ‘writing’ 40,000 years earlier than anyone thought

Researchers have uncovered compelling evidence that Stone Age humans were engraving complex, meaningful symbol systems onto ...
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Dispatch from 15th century BCE

Here's what we know about Zaze. She was a woman. She lived some 3,500 years ago in southeastern Turkey. And as the manager—or maybe owner—of a furniture workshop, she employed at least seven ...