The tiny cuts and grooves that decorate some ancient human artifacts are not just pretty accidents, according to some ...

Experts debated the meaning of these violent-looking skulls from northern Spain for years, “but these hypotheses have not ...

The swastika is one of the most ancient symbols used by humans and has been ... Jains and Buddhists as an auspicious sign which is part of everyday life. In India it is often found painted over ...

An ancient script made up of signs and symbols by people from the Indus civilisation could give scientists a major insight into one of the world's earliest urban societies but no one has ...

The ancient Egyptians invented one of the earliest known writing systems used from around 3000 BC. The symbols they used were called hieroglyphs, which comes from a Greek word meaning ...

To encourage the decipherment of the ancient Indus script ... tools to identify patterns in the arrangement of these signs and symbols. Using a data set of Indus signs, for instance, Nisha ...