Archaeologists have uncovered the oldest known alphabetic writing in an ancient Syrian city, suggesting alphabets may be around 500 years older than previously thought. Johns Hopkins University ...

Using trowels and brushes to remove ancient soil at an Early Bronze Age burial site in Umm el-Marra ... But Schwartz, over time, began to explore the possibility that the symbols on the cylinders ...

“It changes the entire narrative of how the alphabet was introduced,” Professor Schwartz was quoted by Scientific American. The writing is on clay cylinders, each of which is about the ...

Maybe Techosous and her baby survived the birth. Maybe not. Letters like this reveal ancient people’s everyday triumphs and tragedies. Brothers worry about their sisters, bosses rage at slack ...

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 ...

The emerging importance of the find underscores a key truth about archaeology: artifacts often hold secrets that only later generations can unlock.

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 ...

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.

“Ancient Games: Timeless Treasure” is the brainchild of Ingrid Wong, a private collector with a deep passion for preserving and sharing the wisdom of the past. “My goal is to promote history ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has brought ancient languages to life, such as Ancient Greek and Old English, by demonstrating ...