A correspondence about an ancient Greek letter that was eaten by mice is certainly one of the funniest anecdotal ...

According to the Guardian’s Dalya Alberge, archaeologists found the stylus while conducting excavations for Bloomberg’s London headquarters between 2010 and 2014. The writing implement was one ...

Eighty of them carried legible texts—legible, that is, to Roger Tomlin, one of the world’s foremost experts in very old handwriting ... was scratched with a stylus. But the wax has long ...

During an archaeological excavation at a Roman-era site in London, researchers found around 200 iron styluses used for writing on wax ... likely refers to Rome. The stylus, which dates to around ...

True or false: You can get lead poisoning if you’re stuck with a lead pencil. False. Lead pencils contain graphite (a form of carbon), not lead. In fact, contrary to what many people believe ...

But here was proof that nearly 2,000 years earlier, ancient people were every ... of recording transactions, cuneiform writing was created by using a reed stylus to make wedge-shaped indentations ...

The earliest known example of alphabetic writing has been discovered etched onto small clay cylinders in an ancient Syrian tomb ... as opposed to a purpose-made stylus, as Schwartz described ...

During an archaeological excavation at a Roman-era site in London, researchers found around 200 iron styluses used for writing on wax ... of the inscribed stylus, is expected next year.) ...

The ancient Celtic settlement near Altenburg ... among other artifacts. A bone writing stylus found at the 2,000-year-old fortress. Photo from LAD / Yvonne Mühleis One rare artifact was a stylus ...