In her feisty, graceful “Glyph,” Ali Smith mulls writing and language among other themes: it’s her best work since the lauded ...

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Years after it was omitted from the Common Core standards, some students are practicing cursive in clubs after school and in ...

Researchers have deciphered a collection of cuneiform writing from the earliest civilizations of the Near East. The analysis ...

A long-overlooked writing system from 5000 years ago is still largely undeciphered, but could mark the moment humans first ...

The Sumerians are often credited with creating one of the world’s earliest civilizations, developing cities, writing, and ...

Now, French archaeologist François Desset and his colleagues say they have cracked much of it. If confirmed, their work would ...

An ancient mystery has been solved by a French archaeologist who successfully cracked the code to an undeciphered Iranian ...

Mastery of banal style is losing its usefulness – but language is more powerful than ever. It’s up to the writer to do what machines can’t I recently heard an exchange at a playground that should ...

An international study applies zinc isotope analysis in tooth enamel for the first time to reconstruct the diet of a non-elite population in southern Mesopotamia, overcoming the poor preservation of ...

EXCLUSIVE: When Sumerian’s content chief Rob Williams saw Josephine at the Sundance Film Festival he knew it was special. He quickly got on the phone to company founder Ash Avildsen and told him he ...

For fans of isometric action stealth real-time puzzle games – the acronym for the genre is frankly an absolute mess – the news of Mimimi Games’ closure was like a gut punch to the face – if that ...