Ancient Writing Systems: Decoding the Human Mind The earliest writing systems, such as cuneiform or hieroglyphics, represent a leap in human cognitive evolution.

A fascinating stone tablet has been uncovered in Georgia, featuring a mystery language that has left archaeologists and ...

How social media is pushing back against the still common idea that African societies never had a knowledge system.

An ancient language with nearly a million undeciphered texts just got a translator that does the job in seconds: A.I. Rachel Shin Updated Wed, Jul 5, 2023, 4:13 PM 6 min read ...

Cuneiform, meanwhile, originated around 3400 BCE and is one of the earliest writing systems used to document several ancient dialects, including Sumerian, Akkadian, Hittite, Aramaic, and Old Persian.

The bronze hand found at the Irulegi hillfort site in Navarre, Spain. The artifact, which dates to around 2,100 years ago, features an inscription of a rare ancient language, a study has found.

Homer's language, used in his epic poems, which laid the foundations of Western literature, was never spoken but echoes in ...

Laura Spinney’s “Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global” explores the roots of language and how it spread and changed across time and place.

This places the origin of the artefacts about 500 years before the previously known oldest alphabetic writing. “Previously, scholars thought the alphabet was invented in or around Egypt some ...

We don’t know how language first began. The first writing didn’t occur until around 3200 B.C.E., and we know that spoken language came before that. Some experts contend that it started with hand ...

There’s a new language in town. Well, actually, it’s ancient, and experts can’t even read it yet. But they’re excited to find out more. Archaeologists discovered a basalt tablet about the ...

The languages must have “sprung from some common source,” he wrote. Later generations of linguists determined that Sanskrit and Latin belong to a huge family of so-called Indo-European languages.