The Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia arranged floral depictions on pottery with symmetry and numerical sequences, ...

Hidden in the darkness of a remote limestone chamber, a cluster of ancient finger marks has forced archaeologists to confront ...

Dr Sumedha Kotwal [email protected] Humanity has always looked upward and inward, seeking meaning, purpose, and ...

Scientists have found proof of mathematics being used by a society long before formal numbers were invented. The Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia painted floral patterns on pottery that follow ...

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

We, humans, treat animals like animals, so why should we be surprised when we treat humans like animals? If only we could bring ourselves to like animals.

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The Netherlands has returned four pieces from a major archaeological collection to Indonesia, including the skullcap which ...