The Ancient Egyptians developed hieroglyphics, and Chinese characters built the written language piece by piece. Alphabetic language, or written language made of individual letters, is a newer ...

Back when she was an intrepid graduate student, renowned University of California, Santa Cruz Egyptologist Elaine Sullivan ...

Archaeologist Glenn Schwartz unearthed four ancient clay fragments in northern Syria bearing inscriptions that may be the earliest known alphabetic writings.

Ancient papyrus letters from Egypt sometimes preserve evidence of people ... Other letters also contain strong language. People weren’t afraid to hide their feelings. In the 5th century AD, for ...

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

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

by comparing them to characters used in ancient Semitic languages, could perhaps represent sounds that corresponded to the letters A, I, K, L, N, S and Y, according to a Nature article that ...

It is a three-foot high stone containing hieroglyphs, everyday ancient Egyptian language and a Greek translation ... The phonetic hieroglyph alphabet is the closest version to our modern ...