For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

Here’s how it works. A mysterious ancient writing system called Linear Elamite, used between about 2300 B.C. and 1800 B.C. in what is now southern Iran, might have finally been deciphered ...

In 1999, their writing system was revealed when road builders ... ancient Ceylonese, Tamil, Kawi, Old Javanese, or Sanskrit. When missionaries arrived in Easter Island in the 1860s, they found ...

For centuries, scholars have puzzled over the origins of the world’s first writing system. Now ... compared puncture marks on an 1,800-year-old skeleton in the UK to various animal bites ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Ben Bacon, a London-based furniture conservator, about decoding a 20,000-year-old writing system. If I say Stone Age cave paintings, what comes to mind - stick ...

Among the most intriguing findings were inscriptions engraved on various bronze and stone artifacts, revealing an unknown writing system. In total, 14 inscriptions were discovered: ten main texts ...

The researcher, Ben Bacon, found that cave drawings were used to record details about the timing of animal reproductive cycles. The Wilkins Building at University College London, London, England ...

"Changes in writing systems mirror larger changes that take place ... "This a brilliant paper by three experts in two ancient scripts of the Old World and one of the New," said Michael Coe, professor ...

Get inspired by a weekly roundup on living well, made simple. Sign up for CNN’s Life, But Better newsletter for information and tools designed to improve your well-being. Researchers have ...

A stone slab found in the state of Veracruz in Mexico bears 3,000-year-old writing previously unknown ... symbols appeared to be that of a true writing system, according to the Mexican scientists ...

The discovery reveals, for the first time, a direct link between the cylinder seal system and the invention of writing, offering new perspectives for studying the evolution of symbolic and writing ...