There are just four villages in the Peruvian Andes where khipus are kept, though the knowledge of how to read them was lost ...

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

For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

The Atlantic has a fascinating deep dive into khipus — long cords that the Inca tied knots into to preserve information. Few ...

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

It seems like every other slot machine has an ancient Egypt theme, with pyramids, mythological characters or symbols. Ancient ...

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 ...