The elders also highlighted the imagery of symbolically significant animals, such as anacondas, jaguars, bats and herons, as ...

A link exists between 6,000-year-old engravings on cylindrical seals used on clay tablets and cuneiform, the world’s oldest ...

Researchers have uncovered links between the precursor to the world's oldest writing system and the mysterious, intricate ...

"I have worked with rock art and Indigenous groups on every continent – and never have we been fortunate enough to have such ...

Staff writer for the Prospect Natalia Diaz reviews the Princeton University Ballet’s recent show “chroma” — a vibrant and ...

Researchers investigating how the first writing arose identified the motifs on preliterate "cylinder seals" used in the trade of agricultural products and textiles.

Life Sciences Center (LSC) have discovered a unique way for cells to silence specific genes without cutting DNA. This ...

Italian researchers suggest that symbols from the oldest writing system in the world may have come directly from cylinder seal motifs.

Archaeologists documenting tens of thousands of rock art motifs in the Colombian Amazon have been consulting with Indigenous ...

A study by Goethe University Frankfurt has examined this protrusion process using computer simulations. Its finding: certain structural motifs of proteins in the ER membrane play a central role in ...

An event from the Harvard Film Archive shares the work of one of Boston's most determined punk scene documenters.