So ubiquitous to daily life was beer that, in the texts Sumerians left behind, one of the most-used cuneiform pictographs is the one that represents beer. Mesopotamian writing and art also ...

It is written in cuneiform, the oldest known writing in the world, a non-alphabetic kind of writing that grew out of a simple system of pictographs into a flexible medium with which the Sumerian ...

Now, academics at Italy’s University of Bologna have identified links between the designs engraved on these 6,000-year-old cylinders and pictographs in proto-cuneiform script – which came ...

The cuneiform sign for "head" evolved over more ... The writing systems that evolved from pictographs are still in wide use today, most notably Chinese. Alphabetic writing systems like Latin ...

Instead of referring to sounds in an essentially arbitrary way, pictures refer to the world. As such, they require no learning and no translation—making emojis akin to the earlist forms of writing.