The first true alphabet was an invention of the Greek world, revolutionizing writing, literacy, and shaping foundations of ...

"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 ...

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 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 ...

Researchers have uncovered links between the precursor to the world’s oldest writing ... of the symbols match exactly, but ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

"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 ...