Berossus, a Babylonian priest writing during the Hellenistic period, preserved one of the most famous accounts of ...

The kind of generalist education modern universities have quietly abandoned, hidden inside eight serious books still sitting ...

The earliest jewelry of which we have any record belonged to the Sumerian queen Puabi. Pu (as we may call her) was buried in ...

From Enheduanna to Plato and Aristotle, ancient thinkers viewed writing as a deeply human act that expresses experience and ...

In her feisty, graceful “Glyph,” Ali Smith mulls writing and language among other themes: it’s her best work since the lauded ...

Curated by Bahraini researcher and archaeologist Mahmood Al Baqlawa, the exhibition, titled In-za-ak, will showcase 47 works ...

Researchers at the MIT Media Lab have found that when they scanned writers' brains, ChatGPT is making us dumber.

Researchers are transforming access to some of the world's oldest written records using digital technology and multilingual ...

An international team of archaeologists and scientists has shed light on how the famous cuneiform writing tablets were ...

A long-overlooked writing system from 5000 years ago is still largely undeciphered, but could mark the moment humans first ...

For more than a century, scholars stared at the same strange marks and got almost nowhere. The signs belonged to Linear Elamite, a 4,000-year-old writing system from ancient Iran. They appeared on ...