Was the Phoenician writing system a true alphabet? If not, what should it be called instead, and what was the earliest true ...

Scholars believe a language used 5,000 years ago on the Asian steppe was the source of many of the world’s modern tongues.

When Alf Monge, a former U.S. Army Cryptographer who was born in Norway and broke a Japanese code during WWII, looked at the ...

The Voynich Manuscript is one of the most famous mysteries in ancient codicology or paleography. This illustrated manuscript, authored by an unknown writer and ...

The Greek alphabet, believed to have emerged in the eighth century BC, is undergoing reevaluation by Leiden University.

For over two thousand years, successive societies forged the civilization of ancient Greece. From the early societies of the ...

It was previously believed that the Levantine DNA of the Phoenicians spread as far as their famous alphabet, which influenced ...

The Albanese Government is facing mounting criticism from Greek-Australian leaders following its failure to support a UNESCO resolution establishing February 9 as World Greek Language Day ...

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A recent study published in the journal Nature revealed that while the ancient ... as the first alphabet, from which many present-day writing systems derive, and shared languages recorded with this ...