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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

Excavations in Hejaz, Saudi Arabia have revealed a series of fortified oasis towns—the latest Bronze Age discovery housed 500 people.

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

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

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 ...

Researchers have found the origins of writing and explained that the world’s oldest writing system might have come from simple symbols used in trade. These symbols were carved onto small cylinders and ...