While a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, UC Santa Cruz history professor Elaine Sullivan unearthed ancient artifacts in Syria marked with an alphabetic script whose meaning still remains ...

The wedge-shaped writing on the tablets ... were first employed—by English and French mathematicians. But here was proof that nearly 2,000 years earlier, ancient people were every bit as ...

"The close relationship between ancient sealing and the invention of writing in southwest Asia has long been recognized, but the relationship between specific seal images and sign shapes has ...