Understanding Logographic Systems What is a Logographic System? Traditionally, languages are thought to require an alphabet ...

It's often taught that every language requires an alphabet for writing. It consists of individual letters like a, 'aa', or '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 in ...

Two hundred years ago, the son of a saddler from a rural French village devised a groundbreaking tactile writing method of raised dots for blind people at the mere age of 15. Changing attitudes before ...

The world’s oldest known writing system may have had its origins in the imagery on decorated cylinders used to denote ownership or record transactions. Some of the symbols on these cylinder seals ...

Researchers investigating how the first writing arose identified the motifs on preliterate "cylinder seals" used in the trade of agricultural products and textiles. When you purchase through links on ...

The clay cylinders were found in a tomb containing six skeletons. Glenn Schwartz / Johns Hopkins University A few decades ago, researchers discovered four small clay cylinders marked with strange ...

Researchers may have deciphered the oldest known scrap of alphabetic writing yet discovered, and it may be a nearly 4,500-year-old gift tag. A clay cylinder found in a tomb holding six skeletons in ...