Before the current written scripts, texts, and linguistic manuscripts, there were various oldest writing systems emerging ...

The total research base is around 4,000 inscribed or stamped artifacts of pottery, sandstone, and copper, consisting of ...

One immediately notices that Ancient Greek writing exclusively used uppercase letters, without any lowercase ones. This ...

The enigmatic Indus Valley civilization left behind a script that today's historians haven't yet deciphered. While amateur theories abound, scholars are increasingly relying on computer science to cra ...

We know what ancient life was like, in part, because people wrote about it. The Sumerians developed cuneiform, the first known writing system, which was eventually used by many languages and ...

A century ago, UChicago scholars argued a controversial idea: Western civilization had its roots in ... the mysteries of cuneiform—the world’s oldest writing system. First developed in Sumer, an ...

A prize offered by an Indian state leader is intended to shed light on a Bronze Age civilization — and settle a cultural ...

The Indian state of Tamil Nadu is offering a $1 million bounty to experts who can successfully interpret the Indus Valley ...

When people think of ancient civilizations ... pioneering everything from astronomical observatories to complex writing systems thousands of years before historians thought it possible.