Greek Reporter3d
Why Did Ancient Greeks Write Without Spaces or Lowercase Letters?
One immediately notices that Ancient Greek writing exclusively used uppercase letters, without any lowercase ones. This ...
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Ancient writing — using possibly ‘oldest known alphabet’ — unearthed in Syria. See it
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 ...
Archaeology5mon
The World's Oldest Writing
2400 B.C. LANGUAGE: Sumerian ... The wedge-shaped writing on the tablets, known as cuneiform, demonstrated that these ancient stargazers used geometric calculations to predict the motion of ...
Chattanooga Times Free Press5d
Near Chattanooga, a tiny (and monumental) glimpse into the origins of the written alphabet
From an animal's tusk, it was worked into a small personal hygiene tool, inscribed with a modest wish, and eventually, ...
BBC1y
Decoding oldest known sentence written in first alphabet
In a landmark discovery, a team of Israeli archaeologists have decoded the oldest known sentence in the ancient language of Canaanites. The inscription found on an ivory comb unearthed in Tel ...
The University of Chicago Chronicle2y
The Day Tomorrow Began - Ancient Civilizations
The careful documentation of hundreds of thousands of inscriptions helped scholars to unravel the mysteries of cuneiform—the world’s oldest writing ... languages. Today, UChicago scholars partner with ...