Renowned Filipino artist, lecturer and cultural preservationist, Fred DeAsis, showcased the Philippine ancient writing system Baybayin at the Skokie Festival of Culture on May 18 and 19. The festival, ...
In a region in Georgia, a mysterious Bashplemi tablet has surfaced with a brand-new writing system that was never seen before. And it may alter current beliefs about ancient writing systems ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One glance at Filipino social media and you will find a recurrent set of waves, twists and inverted heart shapes. They’re more ...
Indus, Rongorongo, Linear A: Some ancient writing systems cannot be deciphered. Can artificial intelligence help crack the codes of the past?Do you enjoy solving puzzles? What would you do if given a ...
When a system of writing begins to die, people probably don't even notice at first. Maybe the culture that spawned it loses its vitality, and the script decays along with it. Maybe the scribes or ...
Researchers have managed to decode an ancient script that scholars have been unable to understand for decades. In a study published in the journal Transactions of the Philological Society, a team of ...
Archaeologists have recently discovered a previously unknown ancient language from an ancient tablet during excavations in Turkey. According to the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg in Germany, ...
One immediately notices that Ancient Greek writing exclusively used uppercase letters, without any lowercase ones. This system is known as a majuscule script, originating from stone inscriptions, ...
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 ...