First discovered in 2004 but confirmed thanks to recent carbon dating, researchers found the world's oldest alphabet in a Syrian tomb.

At the base of the monument, there’s an inscription. It’s written in “tall narrow Phrygian characters,” recorded William ...

Nov. 19, 2024 — Leveraging a unique statistical analysis and applying it to ancient DNA extracted from human skeletal remains, a team of researchers has revealed new insights into how ancient ...

For centuries, the world believed the ancient Egyptians pioneered the alphabet. Now, a groundbreaking discovery has pushed ...

BCE clay cylinders with oldest known alphabetic writing were uncovered in Syria, challenging the origins of the alphabet.

What appears to be evidence of some of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history is etched onto finger-length, clay ...

At an archaeological excavation site in western Syria, Schwartz unearthed a “finger-length” clay cylinder with etched letters ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland say small cylinders made out of clay have the oldest known ...

More than a century ago, the scientist Alfred Wegener proposed the notion of an ancient supercontinent ... The word "Pangaea" comes from the Greek "pan," which means "all," and "gaia" or "Earth ...

Each book, according to the publishers, includes the original shloka in Sanskrit, an English transliteration, and a children-friendly translation. Further, the pages are packed with word meanings to ...

In Greek mythology, the Titan ruler Kronos fears ... According to that legend, at least. Ancient Romans had their own origin story involving Hercules. In Book 9 of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the ...

While ancient ... dark ages of Greece, could be much shorter than previously believed since the late geometric—and so the Greek renaissance, which saw the introduction of the alphabet—would ...