With so many ancient texts around the world, you might wonder which alphabet was the first to be developed. In other words, what is the oldest confirmed alphabet in the world? Experts told Live ...

It isn’t just languages that are endangered: dozens of alphabets around the world are at risk. And they could have even more to tell us. On his first two days of school, in a village above the ...

The cylinders were found scattered around the room rather than all ... This discovery of the world’s oldest alphabet was made in 2004, but Schwarz finally presented his findings at the American ...

The artifacts have revealed what may be the world's oldest known alphabetic ... "Previously, scholars thought the alphabet was invented in or around Egypt sometime after 1900 B.C.," Schwartz ...

The accepted story is that the first alphabet developed in the Sinai Peninsula around 1,900 B.C., an innovation ... intellectual powerhouse of the modern world. Fire was a big one and wheels ...

While the developers of the first alphabet were once thought to be living within Egyptian society, Egyptians and Syrians had extensive trade networks, Ferrara says, and many populations around the ...