From dots and dashes on cave walls to maps of ocean tides and then the earliest graphs, see how we’ve been visualising data ...

Thousands of years ago, our ancestors used symbols to track the sale of textile and agricultural products. New research ...

In a knitting pattern, or chart, each kind of stitch is represented by a specific symbol. I used the open-source program Stitch Maps to write the patterns for this project, translating the peaks and ...

The 2,000-year-old geoglyphs offer clues to the ancient Nazca people and their rituals.

The International Space Station - a blazing symbol of humanity’s destiny to move out across the cosmos - must be saved from ...

A link exists between 6,000-year-old engravings on cylindrical seals used on clay tablets and cuneiform, the world’s oldest ...

Researchers investigating how the first writing arose identified the motifs on preliterate "cylinder seals" used in the trade of agricultural products and textiles.

WTI oil has an American Petroleum Institute gravity of 39.6 degrees, considered “light.” WTI also has a sulfur content of ...

Research suggests ancient Mesopotamian trade symbols found on cylinder seals contributed to the development of proto-cuneiform writing.

That might have been considered science fiction 20 years ago, but scientists now warn that the film's terrifying plot could be coming true. In an open letter to Nordic policymakers, 44 of the ...

Mr. Trump and his allies envision a second term that would try to permanently eliminate protections for air, water and ...

Their version of “Cinderella” or “Rapunzel” could be disturbing. But turning Germany into a unified nation, they believed, ...