Researchers have linked symbolism to writing, bridging prehistory and history in a significant study of human thought ...

Marshack showed what I’d been writing to the head of the Peabody Museum at Harvard University, who invited me up for a meeting ... Marshack, for example, studied the amount of attention and ...

One of the most important parts of the application is where you write down the reason for writing the letter. For example ... thank the receiver, and show him/her that you are looking forward ...

Trump often takes that to mean he must go off-script and veer off message ... in the final stage of the race. Here are four examples of Mr. Trump’s rambling from just this past week.

Artist and illustrator Andrew DeGraff makes maps that show where the characters travel during movies ... Irving Finkel, a curator at the British Museum and an expert in cuneiform, takes a look at a ...

Almost every class asks me that ... show me examples of work you’ve created with it. I am currently practicing what I’m preaching here. As many of you know from my previous writing, I ...

In academic writing ... topic sentence for the example paragraph. Note: This is just one possible topic sentence—you may have thought of others that are also appropriate. Thinking about the 1990s ...

A new study revives the old argument that ancient seals came before cuneiform, humanity's earliest known example of writing.

Before Mesopotamian people invented writing, they used cylinder seals to press patterns into wet clay – and some of the ...

The finding reinforces an idea proposed in earlier research: that cuneiform script — which was developed in early Mesopotamia around 3100 B.C. and is thought to be the earliest writing system ...

In Mesopotamia, the birthplace of civilization, the earliest known writing system started around 3,000 BCE.