It's important to use the right words when writing about writing. Scholars studying the history of it distinguish between ...

Declassified 1970s-era U.S. spy satellite imagery has led a British-Iraqi archeological team to what they believe is the site ...

The history of human writing is being rewritten after archaeologists found the origins of words engraved on 6,000-year-old ...

The Battle of al-Qadisiyah was fought in Mesopotamia — in present-day Iraq — in the A.D. 630s between Arab Muslims and the army of the Sassanid Persian dynasty during a period of Muslim expansion. The ...

Making the jump from using symbols to writing is considered a major development in human cognitive abilities. Tracing how and ...

A trip to Bucks County isn't really complete without a trip back 100 years to life in Pennsylvania when things were simpler.

Education wasn't always required, and in fact, many kids carried on the jobs their parents had instead of learning how to ...

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 ...

A British-Iraqi archaeological team discovered the seventh-century Battle of al-Qadisiyah site using declassified 1970s U.S. spy satellite images. This battle marked a turning point in Islamic ...

W hen did humans start “putting pen to paper” and expressing their thoughts through a series of complex symbols? An important ...

The legendary Roman empire took in every country around the Mediterranean Sea (which the Romans called “Mare Nostrum”—”Our Sea.”) It was so powerful that it managed to last for 500 years in the West ...

In the half-dark of a third-floor office, Danielle Levy lifted a clay tablet out of its box. Carefully examining it with ...