The first patent issued for an invention by an American inventor was in 1790 for an improvement to potash production, and it was signed by President George Washington. Since then, over 10 million ...

Making the jump from using symbols to writing is considered a major development in human cognitive abilities. Tracing how and ...

Researchers have uncovered links between the precursor to the world's oldest writing system and the mysterious, intricate ...

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A link exists between 6,000-year-old engravings on cylindrical seals used on clay tablets and cuneiform, the world’s oldest ...

Cylinder seals and proto-cuneiform acted as the accounting system for ancient Mesopotamia in one of the earliest invented ...

Residents of Herkimer, NY believe that the game of basketball was invented in their hometown. This is their story.

Scientists have started to decode mysterious symbols found on 5,000-year-old cylinder seals to trace the invention of writing ...

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Before Mesopotamian people invented writing, they used cylinder seals to press patterns into wet clay – and some of the ...

Designs on stone cylinders dating back six thousand years correspond to some signs of the proto-cuneiform script that emerged ...

Researchers have linked symbolism to writing, bridging prehistory and history in a significant study of human thought ...