Found etched into clay cylinders in Syria, the strange symbols date to around 2400 B.C.E.—500 years before other known ...

Nearly 4000 years ago a hieroglyphic script was used on Crete which predates Linear A and Linear B, indeed any other writing in Europe, but remains undeciphered since its discovery at the beginning of ...

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The Anatolian hieroglyphic script, which began to develop during the height of the Hittite Empire, is fundamental in the study of these languages, as it presents a logographic and partially syllabic ...

Hieroglyphics sacred writing' was the ancient script used to adorn the tombs of Egypt's pharaohs. Their origin is a mystery one possibility is that they evolved from Sumerian scripts 5,000 years ...