HumansAncient checked dress may be Europe's oldest two-colour garment Textile fragments found in a 2800-year-old grave in the Netherlands were once part of a woven dress with a red and blue checked pattern, molecular analysis has revealed News
HumansAncient Mesopotamian clay seals offer clues to the origin of writing Before Mesopotamian people invented writing, they used cylinder seals to press patterns into wet clay – and some of the symbols used were carried over into proto-writing News