
The South Korean authors rising above a tide of hate to become bestsellers (BBC)
bbc.comu/Non-Conventionnel-77 — 3 days ago

Excerpt from the beginning of the article:
The history of writing down thoughts and feelings could be tens of thousands of years older than previously believed, surprising archaeologists who made the discovery.
The researchers discerned patterns of meaning in lines, notches, dots, and crosses on objects like mammoth tusks as old as 45,000 years in caves in Germany.
Traditionally historians date the first written words to proto-cuneiform scripts made around 5,000 years ago in ancient Iraq, or Mesopotamia.