What “We Wrote in Symbols” captures most strongly is the richness and depth of erotic writing in the Arabic literary tradition, and the incredible diversity and range of its female voices.

The codex was a book that was made up of a number ... These pictorial symbols were developed from earlier Mesoamerican writing systems and did not represent alphabetic letters, but components ...

His 1994 book The Psychology of Writing showed that humans have an innate ... mapping those ideas into the public world of linguistic symbols,” he wrote, the process (which he was doing as ...

From a description in a book, von Petzinger knew that many ... Whether or not the symbols are actually writing depends on what you mean by “writing”, says d’Errico. Strictly speaking ...

Nonetheless, the idea has surfaced or resurfaced with a thorough analysis of symbols and writing, and necessity might have spawned both forms of communication.

Some of the symbols on these cylinder seals correspond ... at the University of Texas at Austin in her two-volume book Before Writing in 1992. There is some evidence for a role of tokens in ...

Opinions expressed are those of the author. Many people want to write a book, but few actually do it because of how difficult the process can be. I’ve interviewed thousands of business ...

What inspired you to write this book about the stories behind these symbols? I started teaching in 1977, and across my nearly 50 years I noticed that students were always interested in the history ...

Now, a new paper suggests that one of the world’s earliest writing systems may have been influenced by older symbols engraved on small cylinders. These stone “cylinder seals” helped our ...

Here’s how it works. The world's oldest known system of writing was influenced by symbols used for trade — engravings found on cylinders used in the exchange of farming produce and textiles ...