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February 25, 2026 at 08:31 PM
Humans May Have Used These Mysterious Symbols to Encode Information Tens of Thousands of Years Before the First Writing Systems
Source:
Smithsonian Magazine
Mysterious symbols found on 40,000-year-old artifacts in German caves suggest early humans may have encoded information long before written language, marking a significant scientific discovery.
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