In the dusty city states of ancient Mesopotamia, long before the advent of written language, mysterious symbols etched into ...

On ancient cylinders, 6000 years old, researchers believed that they found a link between these ancient seals used in very ...

Italian researchers suggest that symbols from the oldest writing system in the world may have come directly from cylinder seal motifs.

A jade stamp and seal, with two characters xiang liao (a person's name), from the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220). [Photo provided to China Daily] Specifically, the seal refers to the original seal ...

Some say they want to stamp their marriage notification forms with personal seals to make them keepsakes. The Justice Ministry plans to end the mandatory requirement for hanko in procedures ...

The set includes 10 character-inspired stamps featuring droids from across the franchise’s entire history. Those droids include IG-11, R2-D2, K-2SO, D-O, L3-37, BB-8, C-3PO, a gonk droid, 2-1B ...

Exclusively in Iliamna Lake, Alaska’s largest body of freshwater, lives a small population of rare freshwater seals — one of only two freshwater harbor seal populations in the world. Alaska natives, ...

The large northern fur seal, found in chilly northern waters, was hunted to near extinction during the 19th century. These animals were protected by law in 1911, and populations later rebounded to ...

Biden became emotional as he recalled the Kennedy family helping him cope more than 50 years ago when his wife, 30-year-old Neilia, and their 13-month-old daughter, Naomi, were killed in a car ...

Enter the price, location and purpose of the property you're buying and our stamp duty calculator will tell you how much tax you'll have to pay on it. This calculator has been updated to reflect the ...

In the Autumn Budget, stamp duty for buy-to-let properties and second homes increased by two percentage points. The table shows the current buy-to-let stamp duty rates in England and Northern Ireland.

A turquoise seal and its stamp from the pre-Qin period (before 221 BC), with two characters zhong xin ("loyalty" and "trustworthiness"). [Photo provided to China Daily] Cultural icon used to mark ...