“The close relationship between ancient sealing and the invention of writing in southwest ... seventh millennium BCE and onward in Northern Mesopotamia. “Shared seal imagery” furthermore ...

The four original inventions of writing are in Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, and the South American Mayan culture. There may, however, be another source. There are cases in modern India and Pakistan ...

Machine learning is bringing us closer to a Babel-fish-style universal translation device. What will really matter in the long run? That’s the question we tackle each year as we compile this ...