The alphabet was invented by illiterate Canaanite miners in ancient Egypt who turned elaborate hieroglyphs into basic letters 4,000 years ago, a study claimed. In 2006, Egyptologist Orly Goldwasser ...

It's an ancient alphabet having a modern moment. From Alpha to Omicron - SBS takes a look at why the World Health Organisation is using the Greek alphabet to name COVID-19 variants. The Greek alphabet ...

The Canannites invented the first alphabet about 3,800 years ago. The letters, instead of hieroglyphics like those used in Egypt, became the basis for written Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. English, ...

Several years ago, archaeologists unearthed a small ivory comb at Tel Lachish in Israel, once a major Canaanite city-state in the second millennium BCE. But it wasn’t until last December that someone ...

Dato Dolidze’s fingers move slowly on the old handset as he writes a text message to his son. “My phone only has the Latin alphabet, so every time I text I need to translate the Georgian letters into ...

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To say that mystery glyphs look like “early alphabetic letters” is to say that they look like crude versions of hieroglyphs 24 April, p 15. Finding such hieroglyphs in Syria 850 years before reliably ...