Early Bronze Age seals from Therasia, Greece may rewrite Aegean history, pointing to the Cyclades as the birthplace of ancient writing.

The first true alphabet was an invention of the Greek world, revolutionizing writing, literacy, and shaping foundations of ...

The Rosetta Stone is a slab of ancient stone that bears identical text inscribed in three different writing systems: ...

Up until the time of the Spanish conquest in the 16th century, Inca communities in the Andean highlands used a peculiar form ...

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

Today, more than 30 Mayan languages exist and are spoken by at least six million people worldwide. Although some, like ...

It also explains how the writing system works ... By bridging digital tools with Egypt's ancient linguistic heritage, "Hieroglyphs Step by Step" offers an innovative, inclusive, and scholarly ...

Jean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier says he has identified seven sets of crypto-hieroglyphs on the 75-foot-tall structure, which France received as a gift in 1836 ...

Hieroglyphs from ancient Egypt originally started as a pictographic writing system before transitioning into a logosyllabic system. An example of early Egyptian pictographic writing can be seen in ...

Clay cylinders unearthed from a tomb in Syria and dated to 4,400 years ago are inscribed with traces of the earliest known alphabetic writing system ... it turned hieroglyphs into alphabetic ...

Schwartz discovered the finger-sized cylinder, along with three others bearing similar etchings, in a tomb at Tell Umm el-Marra, an ancient city ... another type of writing system.

ATLANTA — Researchers have uncovered links between what came before the world's oldest writing system and the undeciphered ... the much more picture-like Egyptian hieroglyphs — a full ...