While a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, UC Santa Cruz history professor Elaine Sullivan unearthed ancient artifacts in Syria marked with an alphabetic script whose meaning still remains ...

Using trowels and brushes to remove ancient soil at an Early Bronze Age burial site in ... began to explore the possibility that the symbols on the cylinders could be an early Semitic alphabet dating ...

One immediately notices that Ancient Greek writing exclusively used uppercase letters, without any lowercase ones. This ...

Long before the “A, B, C Song” — built upon the Latin alphabet — and the alphas, betas and gammas of Ancient Greek, cultures around the world were communicating with one another.

From an animal's tusk, it was worked into a small personal hygiene tool, inscribed with a modest wish, and eventually, ...

Typography designer Liron Lavi Turkenich has created a stylized writing system that merges the two ancient alphabets into a single giant one. TEL AVIV (JTA) — Middle East peace may remain out of ...

The belief that Ancient Egyptians birthed the first alphabet is now challenged. Researchers reveal clay cylinders from Syria dating to 2400 BC may predate Egyptian hieroglyph-inspired scripts by ...

The ancient Egyptians invented one of the earliest known writing systems used from around 3000 BC. The symbols they used were called hieroglyphs, which comes from a Greek word meaning ...

In a landmark discovery, a team of Israeli archaeologists have decoded the oldest known sentence in the ancient language ... evidence for the use of the alphabet some 3,700 years ago.