Researchers discover that ancient cylinder seals may hold the key to decoding undeciphered proto-cuneiform signs.

With that in mind, let’s look at the most ingenious inventions created by ancient cultures that have shaped today’s world. Eyeglass wearers have the Assyrians to thank. The Assyrian ...

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The invention of writing marked the transition between prehistory and history, and the findings of this study bridged this ...

Two gold-and-iron artifacts from ancient Spain predated our ability to work with iron. So how did they do it? With ...

The Virtual Museum of Ancient Inventions is a project begun by the students in the course Ancient Inventions, which was offered for the first time in the spring semester of 1997. More inventions will ...

Discover why restoring these ancient systems is important to communities and natural ecosystems. Watch the rest of the mini-series Paid and presented by CGIAR. Sri Lanka’s tank cascade system is ...

Designs on stone cylinders dating back six thousand years correspond to some signs of the proto-cuneiform script that emerged in the city of Uruk, in southern Iraq, around 3350–3000 BCE. This ...