But the ancient Greeks certainly had numbers. In fact, they had what was in some ways a much more elegant system than the ...

"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 earliest known example of alphabetic writing has been discovered etched onto small clay cylinders in an ancient Syrian tomb ... a system of over 1,000 symbols which was mastered by a very ...

For decades, it's been a common belief that the Ancient ... of writing such as hieroglyphs were 'extremely difficult to learn', according to Professor Schwartz. 'There were thousands of symbols ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Researchers may have deciphered the oldest known scrap of alphabetic writing yet discovered ... in a tomb at Tell Umm el-Marra, an ancient city that sits between modern-day Aleppo and the ...