These 5,000-year-old seals might have paved the way for the invention of writing (and the birth of history)
Researchers discover that ancient cylinder seals may hold the key to decoding undeciphered proto-cuneiform signs.
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Why Legal Documents Sound Like Magic Spells: Power over Clarity
New study suggests legal language complexity serves to signal authority, akin to "magic spells."
The Untold Story of An Ancient African Alphabet Born from a Dream
In the 19th century, a man living in present-day Liberia dreamed of the first script for his native Vai language. ...
An amazingly well-preserved 3,500-year-old clay tablet from Turkey is a humble shopping list
Archaeologists don't know who wrote it but the rare find is a reminder that writing has always been a tool ...
What were hieroglyphs, the Egyptian words of the gods, and what did they mean?
One of the world's most famous scripts is also one of its most mysterious.
Our ability to read and write is housed in a ‘recycled’ part of the brain
The brains of non-speaking mammals seem to recognize letters using an area of the visual cortex.
Can AI replace newsroom journalists?
AIs that write news are great with numbers, but fail terribly with people. There might hope for us jurnalists after ...
Researchers write grant proposals differently depending on their gender, and it can lead to bias
The findings also have interesting implications for automated text-analysis software, which will increasingly take on tasks like this in the ...
Braille Neue can be read just as easily with your eyes as with your fingertips
Writing that everyone can read.
Will AI start to take over writing? How will we manage it?
An AI writer -- can this really be?
Graphology is a pseudoscience
Sometimes there's a fine line between what's scientific and what's just fantasy.
Learning to read changes your brain from stem to cortex, study finds
The more you do it, the better it gets.
UV-printed text allows sheets to be reset and re-used 80 different times
This message will self-erase in five to more days.
Writing about your trauma in third person helps recovery
Writing about your traumas in third person eases recovery. Photo credit: culturestrike.net Writing your memoirs or simply recollecting traumatizing memories ...
Oldest readable writing found in Europe
Extraordinary enough, an ancient Greek tablet dating far as back as 1450-1350 BC was found last summer in an olive ...
Keeping a diary – the key to happiness?
Keeping a diary is not just something girls do when they break up with their boyfriends or don't get along ...
