The accepted story is that the first alphabet developed in the Sinai Peninsula around 1,900 B.C., an innovation on Egyptian .

A finger-sized clay cylinder from a tomb in northern Syria appears to be the oldest example of writing using an alphabet rather than hieroglyphs or cuneiform ...

Each show always features a completely different array of performers, reading engaging letters written over the centuries and from around the world. And each audience for Letters Live doesn’t ...

The artifacts have revealed what may be the world's oldest known alphabetic ... "Previously, scholars thought the alphabet was invented in or around Egypt sometime after 1900 B.C.," Schwartz ...

Long before the “A, B, C Song” — built upon the Latin alphabet — and the alphas, betas and gammas of Ancient Greek, cultures around the world were communicating with one another.

The cylinders were found scattered around the room rather than all ... This discovery of the world’s oldest alphabet was made in 2004, but Schwarz finally presented his findings at the American ...

The accepted story is that the first alphabet developed in the Sinai Peninsula around 1,900 B.C., an innovation ... intellectual powerhouse of the modern world. Fire was a big one and wheels ...