It’s an open question whether contact with the Spanish changed the nature of khipu writing, and whether Inca-era khipus (pre-1530s) and colonial-era khipus record information in similar ways. A ...

Archaeologists say they have uncovered evidence of what may be the world's oldest known alphabet. The alphabetic writing system was identified on finger-length clay cylinders excavated from a tomb ...

A link exists between 6,000-year-old engravings on cylindrical seals used on clay tablets and cuneiform, the world’s oldest writing system, according to new research.

The writing system is thought to have originated from Mesopotamia, the region where the world’s earliest known civilization developed that’s now modern-day Iraq.

Cuneiform, the oldest identified writing system, defied deciphering – until 1857. What happened then makes a terrific read, in Joshua Hammer's The Mesopotamian Riddle ...

The writing system is thought to have originated from Mesopotamia, now an area of modern-day Iraq. Before cuneiform, however, there was a script using abstract pictographic signs called proto ...

For centuries, scholars have puzzled over the origins of the world’s first writing system. Now, a study by Italian researchers reveals that some of these earliest proto-cuneiform signs may have ...

It’s an open question whether contact with the Spanish changed the nature of khipu writing, and whether Inca-era khipus (pre-1530s) and colonial-era khipus record information in similar ways. A ...