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

An archaeological breakthrough to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR) ...

The cuneiform sign for "head" evolved over more than 2,000 years from the pictorial sign on the left to the much simplified sign on the right. Source: Public Domain/Wikipedia Most of the earliest ...

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.