Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A vertical column of 10 glyphic words, uncovered last year in ruins in Guatemala, is unreadable even by the most expert scholars, but they know what it means ...

Symbols and markings carved into tools and figurines by Stone Age humans over 40,000 years ago could be an ancient precursor to writing, according to a new analysis. The marks, found on 260 artifacts ...

40,000-year-old structured symbols found in German engravings. More than 3,000 symbols discovered on Ice Age tools and pendants. Findings suggest symbolic notation predates known writing systems.