The origins of writing aren’t set in stone. The ancient cave peoples weren’t as illiterate as portrayed in popular media.
New analysis of 40,000-year-old carvings discovered in Germany show repeated patterns and structure, hinting that early ...
Mysterious signs engraved on objects reveal that a form of proto-writing may have been used in Europe 40,000 years ago, tens of thousands of years before the emergence of a full writing system ...
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 ...