The oldest recorded alphabet may be Hebrew. According to a controversial new study by archaeologist and ancient inscription specialist Douglas Petrovich, Israelites in Egypt took 22 ancient Egyptian ...

Archaeologists have finally traced a lost alphabet that puzzled scholars for decades back to a 3,000 year-old civilization of Biblical significance. Since 1964, archaeologists have found 15 different ...

After 15 years living among the Buem people in Ghana, in 1996 Andy Ring's work was finally complete. With help from villagers, his wife, Kate, and a team in the U.S., the Daytona Beach native ...

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 ‘sacred carving’ ...