Christianity Today

A Natural History of Writing

From cuneiform to computer keystrokes. Thus when digital technologies of reading and writing arose, soon thereafter people became intensely reflective about what had preceded them: books, paper, pens ...
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Muthanna / mirror writing in Islamic calligraphy history, theory, and aesthetics Esra Akın-Kıvanç

Introduction: Axes -- Part I. A History of Mirror Writing: 1. Perspectives : Previous Scholarship on Mirror Writing -- 2. Foundations : The Practice of Mirror Writing -- 3. Orientations : Reversed and ...
University of Delaware

Researching the history of creative writing

Margaret Armstrong, an undergraduate student at the University of Delaware, remembers sitting in her fiction writing class and hearing her professor tell the class there weren’t any restrictions on ...
BBC

First writing may be 40,000 years earlier than thought

A 40,000-year-old mammoth figurine with engraved rows of crosses and dots The history of writing down thoughts and feelings could be tens of thousands of years older than previously believed, ...