The rich history of ancient Egypt involves power struggles, amazing feats of engineering, advances in writing and art, and ...

Experts told Live Science it was probably the proto-Sinaitic script, which was invented about 4,000 years ago by Canaanite ...

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When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...

The Global Times launched the "Voice from Gen Z" series, which focuses on the proactive actions and innovative achievements ...

Instead of referring to sounds in an essentially arbitrary way, pictures refer to the world. As such, they require no ...

Chen Zhao, a 31-year-old calligrapher from Wuhan, China, used his passion for calligraphy to repay his parents’ massive debt ...

The breed of this sculpted dog is also unclear. Ancient Egyptians tended to prefer energetic dog breeds, and the ones often ...

a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods: Osiris (the god of the underworld who was resurrected ...

Carvings on a 12,000-year-old monument in Turkey appear to mark solar days and years, making it possibly the oldest solar ...

We often take written language for granted– whether it’s texting, reading a book, or scrolling through social media, it’s a part of everyday life. But imagine a time when there were no books, no ...