🗿✨ Behold, the #revelation of an ancient #script that allegedly unveils the dawn of writing -- because apparently, everything you learned was wrong. 🧙♂️📜 New Scientist has cracked the code, or maybe just cracked, and now we're all supposed to be enlightened. ⚡️📚
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2524042-a-lost-ancient-script-reveals-how-writing-as-we-know-it-really-began/ #ancientwriting #NewScientist #historyofwriting #enlightenment #HackerNews #ngated
#historyofwriting — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #historyofwriting, aggregated by home.social.
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A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it began
#HackerNews #ancientwriting #lostscript #historyofwriting #linguistics #archaeology
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How to Write in Cuneiform, the Oldest Writing System in the World
https://www.openculture.com/2025/09/how-to-write-in-cuneiform-the-oldest-writing-system.html
#HackerNews #Cuneiform #Writing #AncientScripts #WritingSkills #HistoryOfWriting #Linguistics
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The Golden Age of Japanese Pencils, 1952-1967 — https://notes.stlartsupply.com/the-golden-age-of-japanese-pencils-1952-1967/
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“A London furniture conservator has been credited with a crucial discovery that has helped understand why #IceAge hunter-gatherers drew #CavePaintings ” 20,000 years ago:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-64162799The study ( #OpenAccess ): https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774322000415
#archaeology #prehistory #HistoryOfWriting #writing #communication #PublicHumanities