For a long time, anthropologists believed that a written language was a hallmark of a society being complex or 'advanced.' A new study on precolonial Mesoamerican societies shows that you can have a ...

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You may not be surprised to know that some languages don't use the English alphabet in their writing systems. These languages possess their own names and special writing characters, so unfamiliar and ...