This is what the ancient Indian Proto-Sarada script looks like, here on a 14-centimetre-wide piece of birch bark. The terms "market" and "merchant" appear in the text, which indicates an economic ...

Chemical fossils are remnants of biomolecules from organisms long extinct but preserved in sediment over hundreds of millions ...

Two men who lived around 2,500 years ago in what is now southern India have been brought to life in new digital reconstructions ... traded with far-away regions, wrote in an ancient form of the Tamil ...

MIT geochemists offer compelling evidence that ancient sea sponges were Earth's first animals, emerging over 541 million ...