While still a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, UC Santa Cruz professor Elaine Sullivan unearthed ancient artifacts in Syria marked with the oldest known alphabetic symbols.

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

The knowledge of writing is not very old compared to human history. It was only invented 5,000 years ago. It is one of the most important human inventions because, without it, it would have been ...

Human Rights Watch joins twelve other human rights organization to urge the UK Foreign Secretary to secure the release of British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah during his trip to Egypt.

The knowledge of writing is not very old compared to human history. It was only invented 5,000 years ago. It is one of the most important human inventions because, without it, it would have been ...

Its value as the key that unlocked the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphs is world-famous—but the turbulent history surrounding the Rosetta Stone’s discovery and translation is more obscure.

Hieroglyphs from ancient Egypt originally started as a pictographic writing system before transitioning into a logosyllabic system. An example of early Egyptian pictographic writing can be seen in ...

But dwarves in Egyptian culture far predate the Ptolemies ... and the American Anthropological Association for her science writing.