British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans purchased some ancient stones with mysterious inscriptions on them at a flea market in ...

Akkadian Cuneiform - 2500 BCE Despite having two different languages ... though extensive studies have been conducted. The language used and its writing framework by the first literate culture of ...

“We know from cuneiform tablets that people such as Hittites ... that genetic data alone can pinpoint the origins of a language. “Language is transmitted socially, not biologically—there ...

A pair of landmark studies, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, has finally identified the originators of the ...

Damascus,SANA- The Damascus National Museum is one of the most important in the world and contains archaeological pieces that ...

It has long been known that this location was among the earliest to use a predecessor to written language known as proto-cuneiform script as well as pictographic signs. The study looks at some ...

A Leicester lecturer who attempts to predict the future by analysing sheep livers claims Cynthia Erivo will win an Oscar this ...

The endless iterations of the Orchid Pavilion preface are both an emblem of Chinese culture, and a lens through which China ...

From Mesopotamia to China and India, the earliest evidence of written language dates back to around 3400 BCE. The oldest examples of writing, discovered in modern-day Iraq, began as pictorial symbols ...

“We know from cuneiform tablets that people such as the Hittites spoke ... numbered many tens of thousands and were spread from Hungary to eastern China.” Language isn’t the only tradition the Yamnaya ...

Discuss the significance of the brevity of inscriptions, the absence of bilingual texts, and the unknown underlying language in this context ... the contemporary Mesopotamian Civilisation, whose ...