The Latin alphabet is the most recognizable form of written language, whose history goes back to the eras of ancient Greek ...

The first true alphabet was an invention of the Greek world, revolutionizing writing, literacy, and shaping foundations of ...

But the ancient Greeks certainly had numbers. In fact, they had what was in some ways a much more elegant system than the ...

A sequence of letters belonging to an ancient alphabet has been discovered in a most unusual way — by someone scrolling through social media. The inscription, on a slate slab unearthed in Spain ...

Schwartz discovered the finger-sized cylinder, along with three others bearing similar etchings, in a tomb at Tell Umm el-Marra, an ancient city ... narrative of how the alphabet was introduced ...

Other symbols are missing or undeciphered. A photo shows the mysterious ancient alphabet. The first letter looks like an “A.” Other familiar-looking symbols include a “K,” “N,” “M ...

To Ringbauer’s surprise, people from Mediterranean outposts of Phoenician culture—also known as Punic people—shared no ancestry with ancient Middle Easterners, even those from sites linked to ...

Symbols on finger-sized clay objects discovered during dig at ancient city of Umm el-Marra could be earliest known alphabet (Glenn Schwartz, Johns Hopkins University) This form of writing may have ...