In the modern world of the internet, you have plenty of tools to help you crack ancient scripts. Websites like Omniglot ...

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...