Combining close readings of literary and scholarly works with the study of hundreds of handwritten books from the precolonial ...

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The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.

We generally associate the origins of mathematical thinking with the emergence of writing, about five to six thousand years ago. However, a new study challenges this assumption looking at floral ...

Researchers using a synchrotron at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have been able to recover pieces of the ...

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Columnist Marie Dillard encourages students to reevaluate how they approach their relationship with learning and education.

You can probably get a sense of which films in this book I really love by the use of language,” Ashley Clark, Curatorial ...

The Late Classic period saw the pinnacle of ancient Maya civilization, with a population that exceeded 10 million people.