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

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

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

The symbols, experts believe, are actually an ancient alphabet. If their interpretation ... According to CSIC, there are 21 signs, or letters, drawn on the tablet. It is considered incomplete ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The writing, which is dated to around 2400 BCE, precedes other known alphabetic scripts by roughly 500 years, upending what archaeologists know about where alphabets came from, how they are shared ...

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 ...