In our NewsHour Shares video of the day, artist Seb Lester shares his thoughts on the “ancient magic” of calligraphy. My name is Seb Lester. I'm a designer and artist, and I work in the United Kingdom ...

A Norwin instructional aide who has mastered the art of calligraphy — an elegant handwriting style practiced centuries ago in China, Greece, Rome and Egypt — is sharing her expertise with today’s ...

As civilizations die, so do their forms of writing, top scholars of ancient cultures found in the first study to examine the extinction of writing systems. The research also showed that ancient ...

SANTA CRUZ — While a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, UC Santa Cruz history professor Elaine Sullivan unearthed ancient artifacts in Syria marked with an alphabetic script whose meaning ...

Visitors watch ancient Chinese calligraphy and painting works at Suzhou Museum in Suzhou of east China's Jiangsu province, Nov 6, 2012. Gathered from 15 museums from home and abroad, 50 pieces of ...

They’ve not only mastered the art of ancient calligraphy from disparate parts of the world, but Meredith W. McPherson and Mohamed Zakariya both infuse a style of their own into their craft — now on ...

The elegant pictorial writing system of the ancient Egyptians—known as hieroglyphics—has fascinated generations of archeologists. Its precise origins are uncertain. One ancient Egyptian legend holds ...

What were books like in ancient Greece and Rome? the oldest known writing dates to around 5000 BCE. It origins are mysterious ...