Archaeologists in Norway have uncovered what might be the oldest known rune stone, pushing back the origins of runic writing further than ever imagined. Estimated to date between 50 BCE and 275 CE, ...

Sometimes the most significant historical discoveries happen by accident. When Professor Hannah Cotton Paltiel volunteered to organize documents at the Israel Antiquities Authority’s scrolls ...

This unique degree programme offers training in an unparalleled range of ancient languages and their associated history, culture and textual traditions. Students study Hebrew and either Greek or Latin ...

Credit: Zde, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Have you ever wondered why ancient Greeks used a writing system that evolved without any spaces between words, without punctuation and utilized only ...

His writing on politics, human rights and culture in Latin America and the Latin American diaspora has appeared in various U.S. and international publications.

The ability to read cursive handwriting is helpful but not essential. “We create missions where we ask volunteers to help us transcribe or tag records in our catalog,” Isaacs said. To ...

That led to a pushback and today at least 14 states require that cursive handwriting be taught, including California in 2023. But it doesn’t mean that they actually use it in real life.

Violent weather exacerbated by climate change fueled hunger and food insecurity across Latin America and the Caribbean in 2023, according to a new United Nations report. Extreme weather drove up ...

This accounting log details financial losses the East India Company experienced in 1773 from shipments sent to Boston, Charleston, New York and Philadelphia. SIMON: ...Our theme music. If you can read ...

Cursive, a digital label and packaging printing company, is based in Deerfield Township. Expand to read more Ben Plotkin Listen to this article 5 min A Deerfield Township-based digital printing ...

A local government in India is offering a $1 million prize to the first person who cracks the code of an ancient script found ... s earliest civilizations. The writing was discovered on pottery ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Two lawmakers have introduced bills that would require students to learn cursive handwriting in Missouri schools. Missouri State Reps. Renne Reuter (R-Imperial) and Petty ...