A History of Writing

For humans, writing meant a huge technological and cultural revolution. Information was at last to be recorded in a more secure way than via human memory. Writing and reading seem natural for us, but they had to be invented and perfected. In 1996, on the left bank of the Euphrates River, 100 ... [ read more >> ]

The Papyrus of Hunefer (at British Museum) contains sacred texts which eased the passage of the dead to the other world

Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet

The Cascajal block

3,500-year-old Chinese hieroglyphs on turtle shell

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Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet