40,000-year-old markings may be the roots of script

German discovery of Stone Age art may reveal a precursor to writing ...
Science Daily

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 ...
techtimes

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 ...
Greek Reporter

40,000-Year-Old Signs Found in Europe Could Be Humanity’s First Language

Research shows Ice Age humans used structured signs 40,000 years ago as a communication system, revealing deep prehistoric ...
Ancient Origins

Stone Age Symbols: Did Writing Begin 40,000 Years Ago?

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 ...

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 ...
Artnet

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 ...