For a long time, people thought that the practice of writing began in ancient Mesopotamia around 3000 BCE. This land, along the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, is what is now modern Iraq.

Language has always been more than communication—it’s how civilizations preserved their culture, beliefs, and history. From ancient temples to clay tablets, these early languages shaped the world ...

A series of carvings found on a pillar of limestone in the mountains of southern Turkey could be the world's oldest written language. The ancient pictograms, which were found at the ancient city of ...

Picts that lived in the ancient Scottish highlands developed their first written language thanks to the Romans, according to new research. Symbols inscribed in ancient rocks prove that the early ...

Language is weird, strange, wonderful, intricate, innovative, confusing, complex, and most of all, multi-layered. There are so many layers and factors that intertwine to create new pieces of language ...

Researchers uncover signs of a written Uto-Aztecan language in Teotihuacan’s murals, linking the ancient city’s people to the Aztecs. Discover what they found. The origins of Teotihuacan’s inhabitants ...

We often take written language for granted– whether it’s texting, reading a book, or scrolling through social media, it’s a part of everyday life. But imagine a time when there were no books, no ...

Foreign languages can be intimidating for the novice learner, especially those that employ a whole new writing system. Any English speaker who has scanned a Chinese menu or glimpsed an Arabic ...