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

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

The Ancient Egyptians developed hieroglyphics ... “Alphabets revolutionized writing by making it accessible to people beyond royalty and the socially elite. Alphabetic writing changed the ...

The wedge-shaped writing on the tablets, known as cuneiform, demonstrated that these ancient stargazers used geometric calculations to predict the motion of Jupiter. Scholars had assumed it wasn ...

The clay tablets are the first cuneiform tablets from the Middle Bronze Age to be found in the region, according to a Jan. 14 ...

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 ...

You don’t need to buy a lottery ticket to win a million dollars, thanks to an offer from Tamil Nadu, a state in southern ...

New discoveries at an ancient city in Iraq, including written tablets and a game board, may shed light on its hidden history.

Scribes in Ancient Egypt suffered hip, spine and shoulder problems from sitting cross-legged with their head bent forwards ...

Sona, an ancient form of inscription in sand, is the first piece of intangible cultural heritage from Angola to be ...