While we may not have much information about some ancient civilizations, one thing food historians agree on is that the ...

As Mesopotamian society became more complex, writing allowed administrators to keep an account of who had been paid and what had been traded. The earliest cuneiform tablets are almost all records ...

you create complex forms of society, and writing is essential for all of that." Writing seems to have emerged independently in Mesopotamia, Egypt, China and Central America - all of them expanding ...