Scholars have recently question whether ancient Indus inscriptions code for language. American and Indian scientists used statistics to show that the 4,500-year-old Indus symbols' pattern follows ...

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LONDON Elaborate symbols drawn on to amulets and tablets by the Indus Valley civilisation belong to an unknown language, according to a new analysis by researchers. The controversial claim raises ...

In a year when discussions of racial justice have dominated U.S. society like few others, five states voted to cleanse the public sphere of words, phrases and symbols that to many were painful ...

Give Me a Sign examines the fascinating histories behind many of the symbols that instruct, protect, entertain, empower and connect people. Marking the 50th anniversary of the Symbol Sourcebook, this ...

Enlightening Symbols Joseph Mazur Princeton Univ., $29.95 As the semanticist S.I. Hayakawa stressed in his classic book Language in Thought and Action, words are not the things they represent ...

Politics are a symbolically charged activity. Political symbols are powerful and significant. That doesn't mean, of course, that politics are not substantial. Political decisions affect our lives ...