The early writing appears to date to around 2400 B.C.—preceding the previous most bygone examples by roughly 500 years.

A downtown Tokyo pencil maker offers a unique product. Clay made from sawdust. Working to find a way to make use of the waste generated in the pencil making process, current president, Sugitani ...

Archaeologists say they have uncovered evidence of what may be the world's oldest known alphabet. The alphabetic writing system was identified on finger-length clay ... did not make use of an ...

But once the decision for an airlift was made, Clay ... Son of a U.S. Senator from Georgia, Lucius Clay wasted little time making his mark on the world. Forced into tough financial straits ...