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

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. The Sumerians of ...

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 ...

A clay artifact, about the size of a finger, was discovered during an excavation at the ancient ... Phoenician alphabet, which, in turn, inspired the early Hebrew, Greek and Roman alphabets.