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Here’s How Long Humans Have Been Using The Written Word And The Oldest Example Of Writing Discovered
While literacy rates have varied greatly around the world and throughout time, using the written word to share ideas and ...
A 2,000-year-old wooden tablet reveals the oldest Latin text written by a woman
Farewell, sister, my dearest soul, as I hope to prosper, and hail." An ancient wooden tablet discovered at the Roman fort of ...
Archaeologists Found a Skeleton Wearing an Amulet That May Change the History of Christianity
Archaeologists discovered a silver amulet containing an 18-line text showing the oldest known devotion to Christianity north ...
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12 Oldest Languages in the World, Some Are Still Spoken Today
Sumerian is believed to be the oldest written language in history, dating back to 3100 BCE. Its earliest writing reveals texts of business and administrative character. Although it was no longer used ...
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2,000-year-old RSVP: A birthday invitation from the Roman frontier that has the earliest known Latin written by a woman
This wafer-thin wooden tablet from a first-century Roman fort in the U.K. includes a heartfelt birthday party invitation.
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Ancient writing — using possibly ‘oldest known alphabet’ — unearthed in Syria. See it
Just outside the Syrian city of Aleppo, archaeologists have discovered what may be the oldest example of alphabetic writing ever found. Ahmad Sofi via Unsplash UPDATE: This story has been updated ...
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Oldest Christian book sells for more than £3m
The manuscript itself contains texts including the first complete epistle of Peter, the Book of Jonah, and an Easter homily. Reuters The codex was written in Coptic on papyrus around 250-350 AD ...
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Oldest letter written in Japan could be stain from marker
A black mark on a stone artifact believed to be the oldest known written character in Japan was likely made with a modern permanent marker. A research team that included the Archaeological ...
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A 2,000-year-old wooden tablet reveals the oldest Latin text written by a woman
An ancient wooden tablet discovered at the Roman fort of Vindolanda was found to present the oldest ... of woman writing in Latin. Dating back to between CE 97 and 103, it presents a text by ...