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 ...
It is a three-foot high stone containing hieroglyphs, everyday ancient Egyptian language and a Greek translation ... The phonetic hieroglyph alphabet is the closest version to our modern ...
In a landmark discovery, a team of Israeli archaeologists have decoded the oldest known sentence in the ancient language of Canaanites ... for the use of the alphabet some 3,700 years ago.