One immediately notices that Ancient Greek writing exclusively used uppercase letters, without any lowercase ones. This ...

Using trowels and brushes to remove ancient ... because early languages are not his primary subject of research. But Schwartz, over time, began to explore the possibility that the symbols on the ...

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 ...

From an animal's tusk, it was worked into a small personal hygiene tool, inscribed with a modest wish, and eventually, ...

Ancient papyrus letters from Egypt sometimes preserve evidence ... Other letters also contain strong language. People weren’t afraid to hide their feelings. In the 5th century AD, for example ...

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.

Ahmet Güneştekin’s 'The Lost Alphabet' exhibition in Istanbul offers a thought-provoking exploration of history, identity and ...