The most advanced way that we communicate, through the written word, is something that animals simply can’t do at all. This ...

Before the current written scripts, texts, and linguistic manuscripts, there were various oldest writing systems emerging ...

A Sumerian clay tablet from around 2100 BCE, found in Nippur, refers to it as the “plant of joy.” The Egyptian Ebers Papyrus, dating to the 16th century BCE and one of the oldest known medical texts, ...

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Near the body, one would have found this tablet written: "Wait, to judge, the day of Judgment." Saint Vital is celebrated on January 11.