The earliest form of the signature came from ancient Iraq in the form of cylinder seals. Mesopotamians, the ancient ...

When rolled on a moist clay tablet, these engravings left low-relief markings, signifying that the object's owner authorized the written document. In this respect, a cylinder seal's impression is the ...

Rather than being a recent cultural development, kissing may have been practised by other early humans like Neanderthals and our ape ancestors ...

Back in the day, Ancient Mesopotamia was the place to be. Considering the geographical area of some of humanity’s most ...

It is not a recent cultural development. A new study in Evolution and Human Behavior suggests kissing may date back 21 ...

Learn about the transformative role of composite materials in construction, enabling stronger, lighter, and more sustainable ...

Did you know that the history of pickles dates back over 4000 years? Even National Pickle Day, celebrated on November 14 th ...

Collected by Cesare Lombroso and now preserved in the Museum of Criminal Anthropology in Turin, these ceramic objects tell an ...

(THE CONVERSATION) In early November 1927, the front pages of newspapers all over France featured photographs not of the usual politicians, aviators or sporting events, but of a group of ...

Bhargava’s call to foreground Indian science came across as a gesture of cultural revivalism, aligning with the rhetoric of a ruling establishment that seeks legitimacy in imagined golden ages ...