a team from the University of Bologna in Italy has linked symbols on ancient Mesopotamian seals with an archaic visual communication system called proto-cuneiform; an art form which would in time ...

A series of Maya hieroglyphs may look like just so many pretty pictures or symbols ... Time Line of Decipherment). In this feature, you can actually "read" a passage of glyphs carved into an ...

The symbols they used were called hieroglyphs ... such as the people who built Stonehenge between 3000-2000 BC, the exact same time as ancient Egypt. This is a section from a piece of papyrus ...