A finger-sized clay cylinder from a tomb in northern Syria appears to be the oldest example of writing using an alphabet ...
Before you start practicing letters and words, first learn the basic strokes. These are nothing but lines, curves, circles, ...
Ancient Egyptians wrote the letter upside down, creating a symbol that resembled a steer with horns. Learn the surprising ...
“It’s an alphabet. It’s easy-peasy. I’m used to much tougher things.” “The morphology of the letters on the cylinder seals ...
At an archaeological excavation site in western Syria, Schwartz unearthed a “finger-length” clay cylinder with etched letters ...
A few decades ago, researchers discovered four small clay cylinders marked with strange symbols at an ancient tomb in Syria.
New evidence of the world's oldest alphabet, carved onto finger-length clay cylinders, outdates other scripts by 500 years.
Hangul is an alphabet. That is, each letter corresponds to what linguists refer to as a phoneme—essentially just an individual sound (a vowel or consonant). This differs from other writing systems, ...