He also argued that the first example of the Sumerian language, called cuneiform, did not appear until 2900 B.C., more than ...

The accepted story is that the first alphabet developed in the Sinai Peninsula around 1,900 B.C., an innovation on Egyptian ...

Recent research has led to new conclusions about the origin of writing with important new understanding on human cognitive ...

Scholars know that the first writing systems, Mesopotamia’s cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphics, developed more than 5,000 years ago, but these were symbol-based languages. Many modern ...

First discovered in 2004 but confirmed thanks to recent carbon dating, researchers found the world's oldest alphabet in a Syrian tomb.

From Sumerian Cuneiform to Egyptian Hieroglyphics, early texts consist of records the heart of our early communities, trade and civic administration. From notes on the source of warehouse items to ...

Writing systems have always been a major cornerstone of human civilization, enabling the transmission of information over long periods of time. Early forms, such as hieroglyphics or cuneiform, were ...