A link exists between 6,000-year-old engravings on cylindrical seals used on clay tablets and cuneiform, the world’s oldest writing system, according to new research.

Scholars consider cuneiform the first writing system, and humans used its characters to inscribe ancient languages such as Sumerian on clay tablets beginning around 3400 B.C.

Edmond Johnson, the last fluent speaker of an ancient Native American language, has died at age 95. The Caddo Nation of ...

These connections not only shed light on the first invention of writing, but could also help decipher additional proto-cuneiform symbols, more than half of which are still a mystery to scholars.

There’s an argument rumbling about why our ancestors evolved language. And surprisingly, one of the possible explanations has ...

The first language question presents the same issue as the oldest language question, and the answer again is, well, it depends. It depends on how we determine how language began: ...

An inscription carved into a 2,100-year-old hand-shaped amulet from northeastern Spain seems to be related to Basque and may be a rare example of an ancient language spoken in Europe more than ...

Scholars consider cuneiform the first writing system, and humans used its wedge-shaped characters to inscribe ancient languages such as Sumerian on clay tablets beginning around 3400 BC.

A link exists between 6,000-year-old engravings on cylindrical seals used on clay tablets and cuneiform, the world’s oldest writing system, according to new research.