In response, many teachers and professors are rethinking what types of writing they assign and where writing is produced. Some are requiring students to write by hand during class. Others are leaning ...

A new study has revealed that mysterious signs carved onto Paleolithic artifacts up to 40,000 years ago match the information density of the world's earliest known writing system — pushing the deep ...

Thousands of markings on objects made around 40,000 years ago may have been more than just doodles, a new analysis suggests ...

They may represent an early precursor to writing, according to the newly published research by linguist Christian Bentz of Saarland University in Germany and archaeologist Ewa Dutkiewicz of the Berlin ...

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 ...

Mysterious signs engraved on objects reveal that a form of proto-writing may have been used in Europe 40,000 years ago, tens of thousands of years before the emergence of a full writing system ...

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

“The artifacts date back to tens of thousands of years before the first writing systems, to the time when Homo sapiens left Africa, settled in Europe, and encountered Neanderthal,” explained Ewa ...

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

We should not close ourselves off to the possibility that a fun, charismatic David Foster Wallace fan may theoretically exist, somewhere in the world.

The essays in a new anthology offer two distinct ways of interpreting the Promethean legacy of scientific progress.

Old things evoke nostalgia, identity, and emotional continuity. Their stories, imperfections, and endurance help us feel ...