Renowned Filipino artist, lecturer and cultural preservationist, Fred DeAsis, showcased the Philippine ancient writing system Baybayin at the Skokie Festival of Culture on May 18 and 19. The festival, ...

In a region in Georgia, a mysterious Bashplemi tablet has surfaced with a brand-new writing system that was never seen before. And it may alter current beliefs about ancient writing systems ...

Researchers have uncovered links between the precursor to the world’s oldest writing system and the mysterious, intricate designs left behind by engraved cylindrical seals that were rolled across clay ...

When a system of writing begins to die, people probably don't even notice at first. Maybe the culture that spawned it loses its vitality, and the script decays along with it. Maybe the scribes or ...

A tantalizing $1 million prize has been announced for anyone who can crack one of history’s most elusive puzzles: the Indus ...

Archaeologists have recently discovered a previously unknown ancient language from an ancient tablet during excavations in Turkey. According to the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg in Germany, ...

New discoveries challenge old ideas about the earliest alphabets. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. With so many ancient texts ...

Researchers have managed to decode an ancient script that scholars have been unable to understand for decades. In a study published in the journal Transactions of the Philological Society, a team of ...

The origins of writing in Mesopotamia lie in the images imprinted by ancient cylinder seals on clay tablets and other artifacts. A research group from the University of Bologna has identified a series ...

Example of a cylinder seal (left) and its design imprinted onto clay (right) (Franck Raux © 2001 Grand Palais RMN, Musée du Louvre via Courthouse News) SAN DIEGO ...