The Next Generation Episode That Invented Star Trek’s Worst Trope

As a franchise, Star Trek has always faced an interesting creative paradox: it must balance the human storytelling of the ...
The Debrief

40,000 Year Old Markings Reveal What Could Be a Mysterious Ancient Precursor to Writing

Researchers have discovered signs of a Paleolithic writing precursor in ancient tools and sculptures dating back 40,000 years ...
Science Daily

40,000-year-old signs show humans were recording information long before writing

More than 40,000 years ago, Ice Age humans were carving repeated patterns of dots, lines, and crosses into tools and small ivory figurines. A new computational study of more than 3,000 of these ...
Indian Defence Review

40,000-Year-Old Symbols Found in German Cave May Be the First Form of Writing

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

Writing May Have Begun 40,000 Years Ago

Ancient carvings once thought decorative may actually be early attempts to record information. Their statistical complexity matches that of proto-cuneiform, pushing the origins of writing-like systems ...