Reexamining the Greek alphabet, Herodotus’ story of Phoenician origins may obscure earlier Linear B writing on palm leaves.

The sentence was inscribed on an ancient ivory comb found at the Tel Lachish archaeological site in 2016. A picture taken at the conservation laboratory of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem on ...

How do you follow up The Book With No Pictures? Well, if you’re B.J. Novak, with The Alphabet Book With No Pictures. The Office star’s follow-up to his first children’s book sees him ditching pictures ...

Despite seeing it millions of times in pretty much every picture book, every novel, every newspaper, and every email message, people are essentially unaware of the more common version of the lowercase ...

The early history of the alphabet may require rewriting. Four clay artefacts found at an ancient site in Syria are incised with what is potentially the earliest alphabetic writing ever found. The ...

Writing is an integral part of our world. It is one of the foundations not only of education, but also of the first version of the Internet. Before coming to us, it existed for many, many years. It ...

Google's parent company, Alphabet, hit the $3 trillion milestone on Monday, joining the ranks of Nvidia, Microsoft, and Apple ...