The accepted story is that the first alphabet developed in the Sinai Peninsula around 1,900 B.C., an innovation on Egyptian ...

When Bharatanatyam dancer Anuradha Venkataraman conceived Bound by Soil: A Requiem for the Forgotten, it was not born of ...

“GROWING IN THE mud, and yet so clean, the lotus is a symbol of purity,” writes the Sri Lankan historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in his 1913 book “The Arts and Crafts of India & Ceylon.” The lotus pool ...

Nov. 21, 2024 — Researchers have reported the discovery of a previously unknown compound in chloraminated drinking water. Inorganic chloramines are commonly used to disinfect drinking water to ...

Rather than literally translating English words, experts have focused on visually representing the underlying concepts for ...

Thousands of years ago, our ancestors used symbols to track the sale of textile and agricultural products. New research suggests that these markings informed the development of writing Sarah Kuta ...

The world's oldest known system of writing was influenced by symbols used for trade — engravings ... Tom writes mainly about science, space, archaeology, the Earth and the oceans.

The person believed to be Hamad has his right index finger pointed upward – a symbol "frequently used to signify the Tawhid, a central tenet of Islam asserting the ‘oneness’ of Allah," which ...

Beetle Bailey creator Mort Walker created 'plewds,' those flying sweat droplets that appear around a character’s head to indicate they're working hard or stressed. Being a big fan of the comic ...

A number of ancient cultures believed that the Earth was flat because, simply, they didn’t know any better. But incredibly, there are people today who still believe that the Earth is flat ...