Writing Archive

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Writing in Mesopotamia can be traced back to images created by ancient cylinder seals on clay tablets and other artifacts. A research team from

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -  In the Middle Ages, the Roman alphabet and runes lived side by side. A new doctoral thesis challenges the notion that runes represent

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Mysterious ancient dots and stripes on European cave paintings have puzzled scientists for decades. It has been suggested these markings made by Ice

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The evolution of writing is a complex issue, but the Vai script, a rare manuscript may offer clues into this important question scientists

A. Sutherland  - AncientPages.com - The Phoenicians remain one of the most enigmatic ancient civilizations. Our knowledge of these ancient people is based on scholars' speculations and educated

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Symbols have always played an important role in human history, but when and where did the first symbols appear? How do we know

AncientPages.com - Kilns have been used since very ancient time to turn objects made from clay into pottery, tiles and bricks. A kiln is an oven or furnace or a

AncientPages.com - What secret messages and information could have been written thousands of years ago on scraps of ancient Egyptian papyrus? Hieroglyphics found on the walls of the tombs

AncientPages.com - About 5,000 years ago, people in Mesopotamia used intriguing clay tokens of multiple shapes to count and communicate. People recorded information about their agricultural goods--including domestic animals and plants

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Egypt’s most mysterious and most interesting figure is the god Thoth (or Djehuty), as the Egyptians called him. This god was highly venerated in

A. Sutherland  AncientPages.com - The so-called "Tartaria Tablets" were examined by a number of scientists from all across the world and isotope carbon 14 dating revealed they were created