The Sagittarius glyph is an upward-pointing arrow, symbolising the Archer’s bow and the sign’s constant quest for meaning.

From ram’s horns to the scales of justice, these symbols help tell the astrological story of who you are and how you move ...

Even long before the days of the world's oldest civilizations, humans were creating settlements and even building impressive, ...

But the ancient Greeks certainly had numbers. In fact, they had what was in some ways a much more elegant system than the ...

Phoenician abjad. Credit: Wikimedia Commons / w1k0 CC BY 4.0 What about the ancient Phoenician script? While some scholars consider this an alphabet because it uses individual symbols for distinct ...

She said the ancient objects are each about the ... and was dumbfounded by what he was seeing. “If the symbols were examples of writing, they didn’t look like the kind of writing system ...

Some have attempted to link Harappan to Sumerian, or even more obscure writing systems like proto ... Archaeological Mystery Surrounding Ancient Assyrian Symbols Throughout the history of ...

Neither hieroglyphics nor cuneiform were alphabets in the modern sense, relying instead on symbols and syllables ... In 2004, an excavation at Tell Umm-el Marra, an ancient city about 35 miles east of ...

Well, actually, it’s ancient ... also likenesses to Bronze Age Georgian symbols, including “some similarities with Phoenician, Aramaic, and Greek alphabets [that] are not surprising as ...

And while some of the characters resemble those present in other ancient scripts, the team is still unsure what the author’s writing actually ... frequently repeated symbols may be numbers ...

Alphabetic writing offered those illiterate to hieroglyphics—a system of over 1,000 symbols which was mastered ... at Umm-el Marra (possibly the ancient city of Tuba). Umm-el Marra, in modern ...