Were hieroglyphics the original comics? Epic tales of illustrated super-humans, in neatly arranged columns and rows–it certainly seems possible. Illustrator (and self-proclaimed nerd) Josh Lane ...
According to Aldana, at the end of the 19th century, the German philologist Ernst Förstemann discovered the basis of the modern interpretation of a Venus table in the 13th-century Maya manuscript ...
The Rosetta Stone in the British Museum. Hans Hillewaert/CC BY-SA 4.0 It's been 218 years since the discovery of the Rosetta Stone, and if you fancy celebrating the occasion by taking a look at the ...
Who invented the alphabet, and why? First, the hard facts: The earliest evidence of what’s thought to be the world’s first alphabet is a group of 3,500-year-old inscriptions found in Egypt’s Sinai ...