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Greek Reporter7d
Greeks: The Inventors of the First True Alphabet
The first true alphabet was an invention of the Greek world, revolutionizing writing, literacy, and shaping foundations of ...
The Washington Post3y
With coronavirus variants, the world is learning the Greek alphabet, one grim letter at a time
The 15th letter of the Greek alphabet had been a fairly innocuous ... There were concerns about the behavior of the ancient gods — their immorality and violence. Finally, with the feeling ...
The Economist3y
Why coronavirus variants are named using the Greek alphabet
Those affected by covid-19—which is, one way or another, more or less everyone on the planet—might need a refresher course on the ancient Greek alphabet after the World Health Organisation ...
Smithsonian Magazine3y
A New A.I. Can Help Historians Decipher Damaged Ancient Greek Texts
the A.I. was developed by Alphabet subsidiary DeepMind. To test the system, the team used data from more than 60,000 well-studied ancient Greek texts, dated between 700 B.C. and 500 C.E., reports ...