From the earliest movements of wandering tribes to the rise of organised kingdoms, the lands that are today India and Iran have long moved along intertwined paths.

More inscriptions were found in the 1990s, but the Indus script corpus is not abundant. Then an inscription is tantalisingly brief: many consist of only a single character, the average has fewer than ...

Around 40,000 years ago, Paleolithic people inscribed bone with symbols that appear to be part of some sort of writing system ...

Ash Avildsen's Sumerian splashed out to beat bigger buyers to buzzed-about Sundance movie, Josephine. Here's how and what's ...

How well do you know ancient and modern history key terms and events? Check out the answers, explanations, and UPSC relevance ...

Today, India, despite global scrutiny, has maintained a principled partnership with Iran, balancing its energy and strategic ...

Crosses and dots on an Ice Age figurine of a mammoth may be about to rewrite history ...

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

Statistical analysis reveals ancient bone carvings hold complex information rivaling early Mesopotamian scripts.

New discoveries of Stone Age symbols in Germany could push back the history of writing by over 30,000 years, potentially ...

A small object called the Adorant figurine discovered in a cave in Germany in 1979 - crafted roughly 40,000 years ago by some ...

Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. According to a new analysis by linguist Christian Bentz at Saarland University and archaeologist Ewa ...