As civilizations die, so do their forms of writing, top scholars of ancient cultures found in the first study to examine the extinction of writing systems. The research also showed that ancient ...
The origins of writing in ancient Mesopotamia and beyond may rest on a group of cylindrical seals. A team of archeologists from the University of Bologna in Italy has identified a series of ...
From Latin and Chinese to Tamil and Telugu, discover the top ten most popular writing scripts used around the world ...
Aztec writing sometimes used different colours to refine a word's meaning: This page is from an early 16th century book about Aztec imperial taxation, the Matricula de Tributos, now in the National ...
You may not be surprised to know that some languages don't use the English alphabet in their writing systems. These languages possess their own names and special writing characters, so unfamiliar and ...
Example of a cylinder seal (left) and its design imprinted onto clay (right) (Franck Raux © 2001 Grand Palais RMN, Musée du Louvre via Courthouse News) SAN DIEGO ...
WASHINGTON — As we celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month throughout May, we take a look at the unique and extremely innovative Korean writing system. Called Hangul, King Seojong introduced ...
It is easy to be English-centric when we think about learning to read. Most of our knowledge about learning to read has focused on English-speaking children. Most reading researchers speak English.