Because everybody is different, it allowed people to write the way they wanted to write. Other techniques prioritized function over form. The Palmer Method, first proposed in 1894, facilitated speed, ...

Picture released by the Greek Culture Ministry depicting 13 verses from the Odyssey. Nearly 1,800 years ago, someone in the Olympia region picked up a stylus and began scratching poetry into a ...

Discussions of artificial intelligence typically begin with the question, What happens when the machines take our jobs? For ...

Cylinder seals were far more than ancient signatures. They fused art, power, and belief into objects that revealed exactly ...

A clay tablet, hidden away in museum archives for decades, has revealed a remarkable story of daily life in ancient ...

In Wesleyan Library’s Unique Collections, material signatures of history abound. They offer students and researchers alike ...

Explore the history of these allegedly 'powerful' ancient spells, from Egyptian love papyri to Greek curse tablets. The post ...

What a concept! Wat a ting! We used to use the term “the stench of corruption” to describe grift and abuse in our government.

Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.

The American innovations that catapulted the U.S. into a world superpower touch almost every facet of modern life. From the lightbulb to the airplane, to medical breakthroughs and the internet age, ...

Hi there, it's Tanuki! When you open a world history textbook, 'Mesopotamian Civilization' always appears near the beginning. The ones who built that civilization from scratch and created the first ...

Many archaeologists believe the famed tower from the Book of Genesis may have had a real historical counterpart in ancient Mesopotamia. The Book of Genesis tells of an ancient city with a tower that ...