Writing Archive
Artifacts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Can the nearly 7,000-year-old Gradeshnitsa Tablets offer evidence of one of the world's oldest human writing? Are the carved signs and symbols on
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Archaeology
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
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Featured Stories
AncientPages.com - Adapting to technological advances is a defining part of 21st-century life. But it’s not unique to us: it’s been part of the human story since our
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Archaeology
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
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The long-held consensus that the more populated and "civilized" a society, the more complex their communication may be more nuanced than previously thought.
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Archaeology
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
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Ogham is ancient writing, of which the earliest examples date back to the 4th and 6th centuries A.D. The language of the inscriptions
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Civilizations
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
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The city of Teotihuacán in Mexico remains as intriguing as mysterious. There is still so much we do not know about Teotihuacán, a
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Ancient Symbols
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
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Artifacts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Are the incisions discovered on the puzzling McClelland Sherd only decorative symbols, an early Bronze Age writing or perhaps the oldest alphabetic writing
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Ancient History Facts
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
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Thousands of years ago, there was a mysterious European culture known as the Vinca culture. These people left a legacy in form of valuable artifacts covered with
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Archaeology
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
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Artifacts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - One of the most mysterious ancient artifacts ever discovered is the Cascajal Block that contains the oldest known written language in the Americas. The
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Artifacts
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
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - While excavating in the ancient Egyptian city of Elkab, archaeologists have uncovered several previously unknown rock inscriptions, which include the earliest monumental hieroglyphs dating back around 5,200
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Egyptian Mythology
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
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Two 18th century ‘Collata Quipu’ artifacts preserved in a wooden box by elders of the region located in San Juan de Collata, in the province of Huarochiri, Peru may offer clues
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Artifacts
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
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Researchers have recently developed a new imaging system that may soon allow to crack the world's oldest and still undeciphered system of writing. The
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