AN awe-inspiring discovery of the oldest known alphabet has been found in a tomb by a group of archaeologists. The ancient ...

The study of ancient writing, though not an institutionalised field itself, has developed over the past two decades into a dynamic domain of inquiry across specialisms. The series aims to reflect and ...

Archaeologists around the world make discoveries from the past. Take a look at some recent finds. Trnava University via ...

The researchers methodically compared the designs they found on ancient cylinder seals with known proto-cuneiform signs. The ...

A mysterious stone tablet containing an unknown ancient language has been discovered in Georgia's Bashplemi Lake, leaving ...

At an archaeological excavation site in western Syria, Schwartz unearthed a “finger-length” clay cylinder with etched letters ...

It presents a clear and thoughtful account of attempts to categorize and theorize different types of letter...This book is very successful in terms of its project and the analysis of its themes." ...

They tell us about beliefs, gods, clothing and everyday life. The ancient Egyptians also used papyrus and writing boards to keep records of thing like laws. This is different from societies living ...

The early writing appears to date to around 2400 B.C.—preceding the previous most bygone examples by roughly 500 years.