It is easy to be English-centric when we think about learning to read. Most of our knowledge about learning to read has focused on English-speaking children. Most reading researchers speak English.

As civilizations die, so do their forms of writing, top scholars of ancient cultures found in the first study to examine the extinction of writing systems. The research also showed that ancient ...

A new paper in the journal Cognition examines the visual complexity of written language and how that complexity has evolved. Using computational techniques to analyze more than 47,000 different ...

Every writing system in history followed the same hidden trajectory, shedding thousands of symbols down to a handful of ...

The world's very first invention of writing took place over 5000 years ago in the Middle East, before it was reinvented in China and Central America. Today, almost all human activities—from education ...

Widely implemented in the ancient Middle East, cuneiform, which means “wedge-shaped,” has been a writing model since the early 18th century onward. Britannica noted this framework was the most ...

Get inspired by a weekly roundup on living well, made simple. Sign up for CNN’s Life, But Better newsletter for information and tools designed to improve your well-being. Researchers have uncovered ...

The researcher, Ben Bacon, found that cave drawings were used to record details about the timing of animal reproductive cycles. An amateur archaeologist found a previously unknown "writing" system ...