The first true alphabet was an invention of the Greek world, revolutionizing writing, literacy, and shaping foundations of ...

How social media is pushing back against the still common idea that African societies never had a knowledge system.

The earliest known example of alphabetic writing has been discovered etched onto small clay cylinders in an ancient Syrian tomb ... a system of over 1,000 symbols which was mastered by a very ...

Researchers have uncovered links between the precursor to the world’s oldest writing ... of the symbols match exactly, but they also appear to convey the same meanings in relation to ancient ...

and one in ancient Egypt, the well-known hieroglyphic script. Within these non-alphabetic writing systems, one symbol could signify a whole word, a syllable or a connecting word such as an ...

Symbols on finger-sized clay objects discovered during dig at ancient city of Umm el-Marra could be earliest known alphabet (Glenn Schwartz, Johns Hopkins University) This form of writing may have ...

Clay objects roughly the size of fingers were discovered during a dig at the ancient city of Umm el-Marra. The engraved symbols may be part of the earliest known alphabet. What appears to be ...

Making the jump from using symbols to writing is considered a major development in human cognitive abilities. Tracing how and when it began can reveal more about daily life in ancient societies ...

The oldest known alphabetic writing has been found etched onto finger ... one of the first medium-sized ancient urban centres known to have popped up in western Syria. At this site, archaeologists ...