While excavating clay cylinders in Syria, archaeologists discovered a rare find: an early writing system. The script has given scholars the new challenge of reinvestigating the timeline of alphabetic ...

The early history of the alphabet may require rewriting. Four clay artefacts found at an ancient site in Syria are incised with what is potentially the earliest alphabetic writing ever found. The ...

The Cyrillic alphabet has been the third official alphabet in the European Union along with the Latin and the Greek alphabets since Bulgaria's accession in 2007. It is not by chance that Cyrillic ...

New research confirms that letter shapes become predictably simpler over time to make reading and writing more efficient. The first letter in the English alphabet is famously thought to be descended ...