Today, when we’ve unlocked the secrets of Egyptian hieroglyphs, Maya writing and hosts of far lesser known scripts, it seems as though there’s nothing left for enterprising epigraphers. Fear not, for ...

Joan Oates’s sharp blue eyes spotted something that was not right. Standing on the windy summit of a vast, human-made mound in northeastern Syria, the wiry 81-year-old archaeologist noticed an ugly ...

Researchers have made another major stride in understanding humanity’s origins of writing. In Mesopotamia, the birthplace of civilization, the earliest known writing system started around 3,000 BCE.

When writing Chinese characters, missing the ‘center’ is problematic. The written characters become distorted. They lose their neatness, failing to capture the aesthetic sense (美感) of the script.

The palace at Knossos on Crete was an important centre for the Minoan civilization DNA is shedding light on the people who built Greece's earliest civilizations. Researchers analysed genetic data from ...