While historians know roughly where and when humans first began writing, they have many unanswered questions about how and why the practice arose. Now, a new paper suggests that one of the world’s ...

For centuries, scholars have puzzled over the origins of the world’s first writing system. Now, a study by Italian researchers reveals that some of these earliest proto-cuneiform signs may have ...

Researchers at the University of Bologna claim to have bridged the gap between symbolism and writing, therefore prehistory and history, in a significant study of the evolution of human thought. On ...