It makes documents poetic. It strengthens hand-eye coordination. And, hundreds of years ago, “it was a mark of an educated person.” That’s how Sen. Ann Rest, DFL-New Hope, described cursive ...

Pennsylvania students will soon join a growing number of their peers nationwide practicing the looping, connected script of cursive writing—part of a broader national revival of the once-standard ...

The art of calligraphy dates back more than 1,400 years to the Nabataean people, who wrote an elegant script that was a precursor to Arabic.

A forgotten proposal from a Mysuru seminar reopens debate on whether Telugu, Kannada, Tamil and Malayalam can share a streamlined writing system ...

Sculptures and tools from the Stone Age show markings that could be an early precursor to written language, according to a new analysis.

Scholar Badekila Venkataramana Bhatta’s “Saraswati Lipi” suggests practical reforms to harmonise four major Dravidian scripts ...

Statistical analysis reveals ancient bone carvings hold complex information rivaling early Mesopotamian scripts.

If not for the work of two scholars, Alice Kober and Michael Ventris, the ancient Greek script Linear B would likely still be a mystery.

Children sit cross-legged on plastic mats, their eyes fixed on a blackboard. Chalk in hand, retired schoolteacher and poet Brinda Rani Sinha carefully writes the curved letters of the Manipuri script, ...

An isolated African script is revealing secrets about the unknown evolutionary origins of handwriting and the development of writing. The Vai script was created just two centuries ago to solve the ...

Charles Dickens’ famous “best of times, worst of times” opening line in “Tale of Two Cities” has been repeated almost to the point of banality. Still, it applies to the Flippy Fry Station created by ...