One Requirement Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz Had To Return For The Mummy 4

Directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, known collectively as Radio Silence, recently spoke with Entertainment ...

40,000-year-old Stone Age symbols may have paved the way for writing, long before Mesopotamia

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

Symbols found carved into 40,000-year-old artifacts may be precursor to writing

Sculptures and tools from the Stone Age show markings that could be an early precursor to written language, according to a new analysis.
The Economist

Marks left by Stone Age humans were surprisingly complex

In a paper published in PNAS, they reveal not only that these ancient carvings were applied in an intentional, systematic ...

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 ...

Humans could have been ‘writing’ 40,000 years earlier than anyone thought

Researchers have uncovered compelling evidence that Stone Age humans were engraving complex, meaningful symbol systems onto ...

Extract Hyperlink Addresses in Excel with VBA or Office Scripts

Office Scripts extract Excel hyperlink URLs without macros; results are hardcoded so the file can stay .xlsx, reuse is straightforward.
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 ...

The Black List & Women In Film Set 2026 Episodic Lab Participants

EXCLUSIVE: The Black List and WIF have announced the six participants for the 2026 Episodic Lab. The Episodic Lab, supported ...