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In Phangane, a small village in Maharashtra, the afternoon sun usually signals a time for rest. Yet, a group of elderly women dressed in bright pink sarees gathers each day at a colorful hut under a ...

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New discoveries challenge old ideas about the earliest alphabets. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. With so many ancient texts ...

The Maharashtra government on Monday made it mandatory for all officials in government and semi-government offices in the state to speak only in Marathi. The Government Resolution (GR) issued to this ...

The Maharashtra government has mandated the use of Marathi in all government and semi-government offices. Employees must communicate in Marathi. The Maharashtra government on Monday issued a ...

Archaeologists say they have uncovered evidence of what may be the world's oldest known alphabet. The alphabetic writing system was identified on finger-length clay cylinders excavated from a tomb in ...

Researchers may have deciphered the oldest known scrap of alphabetic writing yet discovered, and it may be a nearly 4,500-year-old gift tag. A clay cylinder found in a tomb holding six skeletons in ...

For decades, it's been a common belief that the Ancient Egyptians were responsible for the very first alphabet. Now, a shocking finding challenges this assumption, pushing back the age of the first ...

What appears to be evidence of some of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history is etched onto finger-length, clay cylinders excavated from a tomb in Syria by a team of Johns Hopkins University ...