Manama, Apr. 24 (BNA): In a milestone achievement, that underscores Bahrain’s deep-rooted cultural legacy, the Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities (BACA) has announced the inscription of the ...

the challenge to make the story accessible, what original writing was like, how the growth of cities led to humans using script, and the intriguing stories of the three people who went on a ...

Listen up, archaeologists and linguists. The Indian state of Tamil Nadu is offering $1 million to whoever can make sense of an unintelligible Bronze Age script used in the Indus Valley, in what is ...

Proto-Sinaitic script, which uses a set of alphabetic signs adapted from Egyptian ... The symbols did not resemble Mesopotamian cuneiform or Egyptian hieroglyphs, the main writing systems used ...

While cuneiform is considered the world’s oldest writing system, having emerged before 3400 BCE in Mesopotamia, it is neither an alphabet nor a language but rather a set of characters denoting ...

A recent discovery in Syria, however, suggests that the alphabet’s origin may date back an additional 500 years. Egyptian hieroglyphics were in use as early as 3250 BCE, but an even older precursor ...

Cuneiform had been used bilingually for Akkadian alongside ... From this sophisticated Egyptian writing system, the concept of an alphabet gradually evolved, with its roots dating back to around 1850 ...

including what seem to be early alphabetic symbols inscribed on several Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets dating from the 18th-16th centuries CE, suggested “a northern Levantine context for the ...