When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...

Staff Writers Molly Hanley and Rania Woodward take opposite sides in the debate between physical books and e-readers.

Red tape may feel like a modern-day frustration, but according to archaeologists, it's been a part of governance for ...

The theme of the tenth Passa Porta Festival is “Ghosts”, and was suggested by the lauded English author Jeanette Winterson, ...

Some anime endings perfectly tie everything together, while others have a finale so divisive fans just can’t decide what to ...

Poetry reading at Inglewood Junior School, Carlisle, in 1996 (Image: The Cumberland News Photographic) Another ancient poem, The Love Song for Shu-Sin, dating from around 2000 BC, is considered the ...

Poetry will take the centrestage on Friday, March 21, as the world celebrates World Poetry Day (WPD). Declared by the United Nations , ...

It is one of four known pristine languages - writing systems with no known influences from any ... Others have been more profound - like the "Epic of Gilgamesh," the first known written work of ...

“Gilgamesh, the Bible ... Cicero and Dr. Seuss all have sections in their writing that will offend someone, but that’s not the reason to stop reading them. “It’s also not the reason ...

They’re aided in that crusade by Servants, legendary warriors pulled from the pages of real-world history and legends, such as Gilgamesh and ... to take up letter writing as an 'Auto Memory ...