Greek Reporter

4,700-Year-Old Seal Impressions Found in Greece May Rewrite History of Writing

Early Bronze Age seals from Therasia, Greece may rewrite Aegean history, pointing to the Cyclades as the birthplace of ...

How one man changed Cherokee history: Explore the Sequoyah Birthplace Museum

Let’s take you back in time to the early 1800s and tell you the story of the Cherokee man who could not read or write. Yet he ...
CNN

World’s oldest writing system may have its origins in mysterious, undeciphered symbols

Get inspired by a weekly roundup on living well, made simple. Sign up for CNN’s Life, But Better newsletter for information and tools designed to improve your well-being. Researchers have uncovered ...
New Scientist

A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it really began

Early writing is a tale of two scripts. Egyptian hieroglyphs and Mesopotamian cuneiform both emerged independently about 5300 years ago. The political powers of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The World’s Earliest Writing System May Have Been Influenced by Older Symbols Found on Stone ‘Cylinder Seals’

A cylinder seal (left) engraved with symbols that was used to press markings into wet clay (right) Franck Raux © 2001 GrandPalaisRmn (Musée du Louvre) While ...
The Conversation

Most assume writing systems get simpler. But 3,600 years of Chinese writing show it’s getting increasingly complex

At this very moment, the words you are reading are entering your mind at the speed of thought. Below your awareness, strings of letters are retrieving words and meanings as effortlessly as oxygen ...