Mysterious signs engraved on objects reveal that a form of proto-writing may have been used in Europe 40,000 years ago, tens of thousands of years before the emergence of a full writing system ...

Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. According to a new analysis ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday praised the Somnath Temple in Gujarat, to mark 1,000 years since the first recorded attack on the historic site. In a blogpost, he called the temple a symbol of ...

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President Trump signed an executive order aimed at prosecuting flag burning, despite existing Supreme Court precedent protecting it as free speech. The Supreme Court's 1989 ruling in Texas v. Johnson ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Paulo Carvão is a Senior Fellow at Harvard Chamath Palihapitiya, former Facebook executive, venture investor and co-host of the ...

Sarah Silverman participates in a panel at the San Diego Comic-Con in 2012. (Photo by Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Flickr) SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — When artificial intelligence can write entire books ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Ah, USB; where would we be without it? Introduced in the late 1990s as a one-size-fits-all replacement for the handful of ports and ...

Following Marvel Studios' decision to basically spoil the ending of Thunderbolts* by revealing that the asterisk in the title actually refers to The New Avengers, the official Avengers social media ...

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