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. The Sumerians of ...

Half-title: The new-Egyptian alphabet. EGYPTIAN ALPHABET FOR THE EGYPTIAN PEOPLE TO WHICH IS APPENDED AN EGYPTIAN ARABIC READINGBOOK IN THE ROMAN CHARACTER BY WILLARD FISKE ...

In 2004, while she was still a meticulous young graduate student, Elaine Sullivan made a discovery that would deepen the history of human writing. Using trowels and brushes to remove ancient soil at ...

Several years ago, archaeologists unearthed a small ivory comb at Tel Lachish in Israel, once a major Canaanite city-state in the second millennium BCE. But it wasn’t until last December that someone ...