This is the minimum amount which is required to buy "x" number of lots of a particular commodity to trade in futures market.

A self-described Army brat who’s lived off and on in San Antonio since 1975, Susanna Meriwether started taking jewelry ...

What has been described as the world's oldest alphabet, inscribed on a series of inscriptions on clay fragments - dating back ...

For centuries, the world believed the ancient Egyptians pioneered the alphabet. Now, a groundbreaking discovery has pushed ...

Archaeological discoveries indicate that alphabetic writing dates back 500 years earlier than previously believed. What ...

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

This discovery, dated to around 2400 BCE, predates previously known alphabetic scripts by approximately 500 years, ...

Although far from the oldest writing we have found, these cylinders are 500 years older than any previously known example of alphabetic script, if that is indeed what they carry.

Carbon-dated tombs were uncovered at the site, featuring six skeletons as well as gold and silver jewelry, cookware, weapons ...

BCE clay cylinders with oldest known alphabetic writing were uncovered in Syria, challenging the origins of the alphabet.

Just outside the Syrian city of Aleppo, archaeologists have discovered what may be the oldest example of alphabetic writing ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland say small cylinders made out of clay have the oldest known ...