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

“Previously, scholars thought the alphabet was invented in or around Egypt sometime after 1900 BCE,” Schwartz explains. “But our artifacts are older and from a different area on the ...

The accepted story is that the first alphabet developed in the Sinai Peninsula ... Four years later, Schwartz was convinced that the history of alphabetic writing needed some editing, but his ...

Ahmet Güneştekin’s 'The Lost Alphabet' exhibition in Istanbul offers a thought-provoking exploration of history, identity and ...

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