With so many ancient texts around the world, you might wonder which alphabet was the first to be developed. In other words, ...

Yet it wasn’t too difficult for even ancient Egyptians to reach ... The Petries recognized the signs as an alphabet, though decoding the letters would take another decade, and tracing the ...

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 ...

Ancient Chinese writing developed early ... that added some characters to represent spoken sounds. The letters in alphabets, in contrast, represent distinct sounds, or "phonemes," that are used ...