Spanish archaeologists recently announced the discovery of an ancient stone with perplexing symbols carved onto it. The symbols, experts believe, are actually an ancient alphabet. If their ...

Linguistic experts identified a mysterious alphabet carved on an ancient stone tablet from ruined Tartessian site in Guareña, officials said. Screengrab from video shared on X, formerly Twitter, by ...

In 2004, while she was still a meticulous young graduate student, Elaine Sullivan made a discovery that would deepen the history of human writing. Using trowels and brushes to remove ancient soil at ...

For decades, it's been a common belief that the Ancient Egyptians were responsible for the very first alphabet. Now, a shocking finding challenges this assumption, pushing back the age of the first ...

The earliest known example of alphabetic writing has been discovered etched onto small clay cylinders in an ancient Syrian tomb, which was excavated by researchers from Maryland’s Johns Hopkins ...

The oldest known alphabetic writing has been found etched onto finger-length clay cylinders unearthed from a tomb in Syria. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University in the US dated the writing to ...

It is clear that the sprawling city of Teotihuacan near Mexico City was a major metropolis of the ancient world, but what do ...

In 1947, the Swiss zoologist Rudolf Schenkel published a paper titled “Expression Studies on Wolves.” Based on an eight-year ...

An engraving on an ancient lice comb is potentially the oldest known sentence written using an alphabet. The ivory comb bears a sentence in an early Canaanite script, estimated to date back almost ...