How social media is pushing back against the still common idea that African societies never had a knowledge system.

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The Minoan Civilization of Crete, often hailed as Europe’s first literate society, left behind a strange writing system that continues to mystify modern scholars, remaining an unsolved enigma to ...

ATLANTA — Researchers have uncovered links between what came before the world's oldest writing system and the undeciphered designs left behind on engraved seals that were rolled across clay ...

Hundreds of people visit Songdo’s Central Park in Incheon on weekends to enjoy the greenery, but a lot more swarmed in this weekend for the new National Museum of World Writing Systems. The museum, ...

The alphabetic writing system was identified on finger-length clay cylinders excavated from a tomb in an ancient Syrian city known as Tell Umm-el Marra. The artifacts came to light during a 16 ...

From my perspective, there’s almost nothing more thrilling than learning to use a new writing system. You’re gaining access to a whole secret code that many others cannot penetrate. The romance of ...

For centuries, scholars have puzzled over the origins of the world’s first writing system. Now, a study by Italian researchers reveals that some of these earliest proto-cuneiform signs may have ...

The findings offer new perspectives for studying the evolution of symbolic and writing systems. They also have gained new insight into the possible meanings of the designs on cylinder seals that ...