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Indeed, the Iraqi dictator was said to be so immersed in his novel-writing that he left much of the military strategising to his sons leading up to the 2003 war. He continued writing in prison, using ...

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The accepted story is that the first alphabet developed in the Sinai Peninsula around 1,900 B.C., an innovation on Egyptian hieroglyphics, but a discovery in a tomb in Syria challenges that narrative.

ON OCTOBER 9th South Koreans celebrate the 567th birthday of Hangul, the country's native writing system, with a day off work. South Korea is one of the few countries in the world to celebrate its ...

GRAKLIANI, Georgia — Sophia Paatashvili, a third-year graduate student in archaeology at Ivane Javakashvili Tbilisi State University, was excavating an ancient temple at an Iron Age site called ...

Graphic showing different scripts in use in the country of Mongolia, and the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia. AFP / John SAEKI In a classroom in Mongolia's capital, students pass over the ...