While humans have been making their mark on the surfaces of this Earth for at least tens of thousands of years, it's difficult to pinpoint the exact moment our impulse to record what we saw tipped ...
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Exploring Unique Writing Systems: Beyond the Alphabet
Understanding Logographic Systems What is a Logographic System? Traditionally, languages are thought to require an alphabet ...
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Researchers have uncovered links between the precursor to the world’s oldest writing system and the mysterious, intricate designs left behind by engraved cylindrical seals that were rolled across clay ...
A cylinder seal (left) engraved with symbols that was used to press markings into wet clay (right) Franck Raux © 2001 GrandPalaisRmn (Musée du Louvre) While ...
A cave painting of an extinct cattle species from Lascaux, France, with markings on its back. JoJan via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 4.0 Around 20,000 years ago, Ice Age hunter-gatherers in Europe ...
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