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 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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...