When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A clay artifact, about the size of a finger, was discovered during an excavation at the ancient ...

Archaeologists say they have uncovered evidence of what may be the world's oldest known alphabet. The alphabetic writing system was identified on finger-length clay cylinders excavated from a tomb in ...

For centuries, historians and linguists have highlighted a deceptively simple question, what is the oldest alphabet in the world? While early writing systems like cuneiform and hieroglyphs are far ...

When it comes to the fruits of human genius the wheel gets a lot of credit as the most important invention in human history. If you roll the wheel to the side, however, the alphabet and different ways ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

This book discusses the alphabetic scribes (sēpiru) mentioned in Mesopotamian documents of the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid periods - specifically, of the 6th-5th centuries BCE. The period in ...