For the first time, too, the museum-going and reading public could examine large samples of the vanished civilization’s writing system, a script that predated Egyptian hieroglyphs by centuries.

The book is Hammer’s account of the deciphering of cuneiform, the oldest known writing system. Cuneiform was invented in around 3400 BC in Mesopotamia. It was used for… ...

The study, by Dr. Carmen Rodriguez Martinez of Centro del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, was titled "Oldest Writing in the New World." ...

It might not look like the text we’re familiar with today, but this cylinder could signify the origins of writing, experts believe. Researchers have discovered links between very old cylinder ...

Researchers at Keio University and other institutions say the writing is also most likely the oldest among manuscripts ... The Analects had since served as a system for teaching and learning ...