According to Roman mythology, what was the origin of the Latin alphabet? What was its alleged connection to the script of the Greeks?

"These symbols are not phonetic writing, but appear to provide the intellectual background for moving from depictions of the natural world to hieroglyphs that wrote the sounds of the ancient ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. The ancient Egyptians invented one of the earliest known writing systems used from around 3000 BC. The symbols they ...

The alphabetic writing system was identified on finger-length clay cylinders excavated from a tomb in an ancient Syrian city ... field have concluded that the symbols on the clay cylinders do ...

Symbols on finger-sized clay objects discovered during dig at ancient city of Umm el-Marra could be earliest known alphabet (Glenn Schwartz, Johns Hopkins University) This form of writing may have ...

The writing, which is dated to around 2400 BCE, precedes other known alphabetic scripts by roughly 500 years, upending what archaeologists know about where alphabets came from, how they are shared ...

The world’s oldest known writing system may have had ... across a wide area contributed to the set of symbols used. Read more ...

"But references in Old Irish (and later) literature also have characters writing Ogham on sticks to send messages, to record information, and to do magic." According to the Ancient History ...