Long before the “A, B, C Song” — built upon the Latin alphabet — and the alphas, betas and gammas of Ancient Greek, cultures around the world were communicating with one another.

An ancient book about Roman emperors has become a modern bestseller, captivating readers with its timeless stories of power ...

The ancient Egyptians invented one of the earliest known writing systems used from around 3000 BC. The symbols they used were called hieroglyphs, which comes from a Greek word meaning ...

The belief that Ancient Egyptians birthed the first alphabet is now challenged. Researchers reveal clay cylinders from Syria dating to 2400 BC may predate Egyptian hieroglyph-inspired scripts by ...

In a landmark discovery, a team of Israeli archaeologists have decoded the oldest known sentence in the ancient language ... evidence for the use of the alphabet some 3,700 years ago.

The inscribed spindle whorl, dating to the 1st century BC, features one of the oldest examples of writing in northern Iberia, ...