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Researchers have uncovered links between the precursor to the world’s oldest writing system and the mysterious, intricate designs left behind by engraved cylindrical seals that were rolled across clay ...

A long-overlooked writing system from 5000 years ago is still largely undeciphered, but could mark the moment humans first represented their speech with written words ...

Early Bronze Age seals from Therasia, Greece may rewrite Aegean history, pointing to the Cyclades as the birthplace of ...

A new study reveals ancient Sumerians credited gods (not humans) with inventing writing, challenging decades of scholarly ...

A recent study published in the journal Antiquity unveiled a significant link between ancient trade symbols and the development of cuneiform writing in Mesopotamia. Researchers from the University of ...

While historians know roughly where and when humans first began writing, they have many unanswered questions about how and why the practice arose. Now, a new paper suggests that one of the world’s ...

Italian researchers suggest that symbols from the oldest writing system in the world may have come directly from cylinder seal motifs. Reading time 3 minutes For centuries, scholars have puzzled over ...

The discovery of 5,000-year-old linguistic inscriptions predates by 1,400 years the earliest known Chinese writing and matches the age of the oldest known human writing in Mesopotamia. (via ...

I teach writing and rhetoric, but my college students and I often overlook a surprisingly complicated question: What is writing? And can artificial intelligence really do it? Many people think of ...