The symbols, discovered on 40,000-year-old artifacts in caves in southwest Germany, may have been a precursor to the first written language ...

Sculptures and tools from the Stone Age show markings that could be an early precursor to written language, according to a new analysis.

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 ...

There were several big recycling bins, and his design was plastered onto each one—as big as a beach ball, he recalls, holding his hands wide. “I thought, ‘Well, it must have caught on,’” since it was ...