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, ...

Some ancient writing systems cannot be deciphered. Can artificial intelligence help crack the codes of the past? Svenja ...

Ancient writing systems tell stories of forgotten civilizations and lost knowledge. Their decipherment often requires decades of scholarly work, combining linguistics, archaeology, and historical ...

One glance at Filipino social media and you will find a recurrent set of waves, twists and inverted heart shapes. They’re more than just symbols — they’re part of the 17-character writing system ...

A wooden hunter’s toolbox inscribed with an ancient writing system from Zambia has been making waves on social media. "We've grown up being told that Africans didn't know how to read and write," says ...

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 ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

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 ...

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 ...

The origins of writing in Mesopotamia lie in the images imprinted by ancient cylinder seals on clay tablets and other artifacts. A research group from the University of Bologna has identified a series ...

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 ...