A stone carving that some scholars believe dates back more than 2,200 years and could carry major cultural significance has ...

The find may be traceable to an employee of the Hudson’s Bay Company.

AnuZigguratUruk #WarkaIraq #WhiteTemple Explore Mesopotamia some 6000 years ago, where one of the cradles of civilization and ...

But the most famous of these birch bark writings come from a single prolific artist who lived there in the 13th century. He ...

It suggests a more gradual development of writing in Greece. Ancient historian Diodorus Siculus also questioned ... including Latin—which underpins most Western languages—and Cyrillic, used by many ...

Researchers studying an ancient form of writing used by the Incas in pre-Columbian South America have unraveled new clues to a longstanding mystery. The research, undertaken by Professor Sabine Hyland ...

Hundreds of people gathered in the Bulgarian capital on Saturday to lay flowers at the base of the statue of St Cyril and Methodius, creators of the Glagolitic script, which later evolved into the ...

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While still a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, UC Santa Cruz professor Elaine Sullivan unearthed ancient artifacts in Syria marked with the oldest known alphabetic symbols.

“I worked really carefully because when you find writing, that’s always an exciting thing in the ancient world,” said Sullivan. “I knew it was important. I certainly did not have any idea ...