The birth of writing could be 40,000 years earlier than previously thought after scientists found etchings in a German cave.

Mysterious signs engraved on objects reveal that a form of proto-writing may have been used in Europe 40,000 years ago, tens of thousands of years before the emergence of a full writing system ...

Now, here’s my argument: Writing matters not because we compose new ideas, but because we begin to see old ones in a new light. During our first class, my creative writing professor told us, “To write ...