While humans have been making their mark on the surfaces of this Earth for at least tens of thousands of years, it's difficult to pinpoint the exact moment our impulse to record what we saw tipped ...

Observations from spacecraft, aircraft, balloons and ground-based devices show that ordinary thunderstorms often emit γ-rays.

Just outside the Syrian city of Aleppo, archaeologists have discovered what may be the oldest example of alphabetic writing ever found ... betas and gammas of Ancient Greek, cultures around ...

The ancient writing was found on several clay cylinders, each the length of a finger, in Syria. A perfectly preserved tomb was located by researchers containing unbroken pottery, six skeletons ...

Their finds — ranging from storage pits to a rare writing tool — revealed a glimpse of ancient life. The ancient Celtic settlement near Altenburg stretches across the looping Rhine River and ...

The cylinders were uncovered during excavations of a tomb at Tell Umm-el Marra - one of the ancient cities of the Middle East. “The cylinders were perforated, so I'm imagining a string tethering them ...

What would be amazing is if we could actually get the kind of data we get from folks today, just from, say, you know, ancient Romans ... right? Writing is relatively recent ...

Symbols on finger-sized clay objects discovered during dig at ancient city of Umm el-Marra could be earliest known alphabet (Glenn Schwartz, Johns Hopkins University) This form of writing may have ...

Dec. 5, 2024 — Researchers have tested ancient DNA from corn found at archaeological sites in Arkansas, shedding new light on the dispersal of one of the world's most important food ...

And while some of the characters resemble those present in other ancient scripts, the team is still unsure what the author’s writing actually says. As Arkeonews explained on December 5th ...