The history of writing down thoughts and feelings could be tens of thousands of years older than previously believed, surprising archaeologists who made the discovery. The researchers discerned ...
Thousands of marks carved into Paleolithic artifacts suggest that early modern humans were using structured symbols to ...
New analysis of 40,000-year-old carvings discovered in Germany show repeated patterns and structure, hinting that early ...
Scholars have recently question whether ancient Indus inscriptions code for language. American and Indian scientists used statistics to show that the 4,500-year-old Indus symbols' pattern follows that ...
I didn't know that the modernist architect Alfred Loos considered patterns and other eye-catching ornaments to be tools of the hegemonic imperialist status quo, but that's probably just me. I also did ...