CHICAGO One of the stars of the Oriental Institute’s new show, “Visible Language: Inventions of Writing in the Ancient Middle East and Beyond,” is a clay tablet that dates from around 3200 B.C. On it, ...
In late December I recommended one of my favorite recent books off my reading list – recent in this case meaning when I read them, not necessarily when they were published. That was Empires of the ...
The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology (JEA) is a leading international journal for the publication of Egyptological research. The journal publishes scholarly articles (main articles and brief ...
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A recent archaeological discovery could overturn our understanding of the origins of alphabetic writing. Clay cylinders, dated to 2400 BCE, bear inscriptions that might represent the earliest traces ...
"Westport Schools Permanent Art Collection: Our Art Heritage, a Gift for the Future," Westport, CT: Westport Schools Permanent Art Collection Committee, 1999, pg. 44 ...