Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. Who created the alphabet and decided its order?

The phonetic hieroglyph alphabet is the closest version to our modern English alphabet. It is not exactly the same because the ancient Egyptians did not have symbols for vowels (‘a’, ‘e ...

The accepted story is that the first alphabet developed in the Sinai Peninsula around 1,900 B.C., an innovation on Egyptian hieroglyphics, but a discovery in a tomb in Syria challenges that narrative.

The quest to decipher Maya hieroglyphs began with the very Spanish ... Knorosov knew that Maya had too many glyphs to be a true alphabet but too few for each glyph to symbolize an entire word.

The connection between hieroglyphics and emoji – systems ... The initial set of 176 emoji was never intended to replace the alphabet, and hasn’t become autonomous even as the inventory has ...

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 ...