Before the invention of alphabets, literacy was the purview of Egyptian and Mesopotamian scribes trained in complex writing systems that could take years to master. Proto-Sinaitic script, which uses a ...

The clay cylinders were found in a tomb containing six skeletons. Glenn Schwartz / Johns Hopkins University A few decades ago, researchers discovered four small clay cylinders marked with strange ...

There’s Murphy’s Law coined by American aerospace engineer Edward A. Murphy Jr. in 1948 — “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong” — and then there’s the multi-part Murphry’s Law coined by ...

When I was about 12 years old, I took an enrichment class in calligraphy. And because I grew up around Washington, DC, the calligraphy class was at the Smithsonian. I say that, because it makes the ...

International Literacy Day 2025, celebrated on September 8, reminds the world that literacy is more than learning alphabets, ...

"Ecstatic alphabets/Heaps of language is a group exhibition on view at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, from May 6 to August 27, 2012. It brings together forty-four modern and contemporary artists ...