The research, undertaken by Professor Sabine Hyland at the University of St. Andrews, reveals that the enigmatic form of communication, known as quipu (also written as khipu), helped record ...

HAMA, SYRIA—Bronze Age potters working in the city of Hama in current-day Syria appear to have sold more than just cups, bowels, and dishes 4,500 years ago—they apparently also sold children ...

The research, undertaken by Professor Sabine Hyland at the University of St. Andrews, reveals that the enigmatic form of communication, known as quipu (also written as khipu), helped record ...

They formalized its grammar and promoted it as a common language to unify their vast, multicultural territory. The Quipu was a system of knotted cords used by the Incas to record and convey ...

RMN-Grand Palais / Thierry Ollivier / Art Resource, NY The earliest known writing emerged in southern Mesopotamia around 3400 BC, originating as a system of pictographs that evolved by 2600 BC into ...

Mark Steel is back In Town. This week he's in Coleraine in Northern Ireland.

It has gradually been pieced together, as the cuneiform tablets have been unearthed and deciphered. It has come out of the ground bit by bit, emerging from the ancient silence of its language only ...

Bible, Cuneiform inscriptions Publisher London Edinburgh, Williams & Norgate Collection Princeton; americana Contributor Princeton Theological Seminary Library Language English Volume 2 Item Size ...