With so many ancient texts around the world, you might wonder which alphabet was the first to be developed. In other words, ...

Instead of referring to sounds in an essentially arbitrary way, pictures refer to the world. As such, they require no learning and no translation—making emojis akin to the earlist forms of writing.

The book is Hammer’s account of the deciphering of cuneiform, the oldest known writing system. Cuneiform was invented in around 3400 BC in Mesopotamia. It was used for… ...

The Phoenicians developed their ancient civilization with profits from the lucrative maritime trade of the Mediterranean.

the origins of writing, and the people who lived along the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates thousands of years ago. Beyond her academic work, Moudhy has also been a prominent figure on social media ...

The unlikely researcher, George Smith, made one of archaeology's most sensational finds when he uncovered the cuneiform-inscribed clay tablet containing fragments of a lost Babylonian epic.