Abstract: Deciphering oracle bone characters (OBCs), the oldest attested form of written Chinese, has remained the ultimate, unwavering goal of scholars, offering an irreplaceable key to understanding ...

But what if the biggest giveaway that a text was written by AI isn’t a word, phrase, or punctuation mark, but a particular sentence structure instead? The idea that certain rhythms of sentences might ...

Red Horse, “Untitled from the Red Horse Pictographic Account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn” (1881), graphite, colored pencil, and ink (NAA MS 2367A, 08571100, National Anthropological Archives, ...

A woman who raped and murdered 12 year-old Lola Daviet in Paris has been handed a rare whole-life sentence in a case that has shocked France. Dahbia Benkired, aged 27, must spend at least 30 years in ...

The Dongba symbols are an ancient system of pictographic glyphs created by the founder of the Bön religious tradition of Tibet and used by the Naxi people in southern China. Historical records show ...

These so-called garden path sentences will make you rip your hair out. Why are they so frustrating? You’ll see. Think you have a good grasp of English? Good. Let’s play a little game. Below are seven ...

This summer, Japan House London opens its doors to a new exhibition centred around pictograms and Japanese design. Building on a project initiated by the Nippon Design Center in 2019 called Experience ...

Aphasia is a language disorder. It affects how you speak and understand language. People with aphasia might have trouble putting the right words together in a sentence, understanding what others say, ...

An example of Dongba script from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) Photos: VCG French sinologist Joel Bellassen went back to Anyang, Central China's Henan Province recently as a speaker at the 2025 China ...

Noel Pearson with a message stick depicting the gurtha (ancestral fire) during the Garma Festival in northeast Arnhem Land, 2023. Credit: MICK TSIKAS/AAPIMAGE When we think of writing systems we ...