Pompeii didn't begin with the Romans. It was fundamentally an Oscan city, also influenced by the Etruscans and Greeks.

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Around 40,000 years ago, Paleolithic people inscribed bone with symbols that appear to be part of some sort of writing system.

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Researchers decoded Teotihuacan symbols as an early Uto-Aztecan writing system, possibly linked to Nahuatl speakers and reshaping theories about the city’s people.

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Current evidence suggests that humans had the capacity for spoken language at least 130,000 years ago. Ever the ...