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 ...
Looking at photos of a 2,400-year-old tablet recently found in Spain, a linguistic expert thought he recognized a symbol carved into the gray stone. It turned out to be a mysterious ancient alphabet.
With so many ancient texts around the world, you might wonder which alphabet was the first to be developed. In other words, what is the oldest confirmed alphabet in the world? Experts told Live ...
The oldest known alphabetic writing has been found etched onto finger-length clay cylinders unearthed from a tomb in Syria. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University in the US dated the writing to ...
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, ...
The following is a partner post from EurasiaNet.org by Monica Ellena. Republished with permission. Dato Dolidze’s fingers move slowly on the old handset as he writes a text message to his son. “My ...
Linguistic experts identified a mysterious alphabet carved on an ancient stone tablet from ruined Tartessian site in Guareña, officials said. Screengrab from video shared on X, formerly Twitter, by ...