Preparing this circular alphabet graphic is a great way to practice your hand lettering and develop your modern calligraphy style. And when you're done, you'll have a piece pretty enough for a frame!

A photo of one of the clay cylinders found in a tomb at the archaeological site of Tell Umm-el Marra in Syria. The artifacts have revealed what may be the world's oldest known alphabetic writing ...

Symbols on finger-sized clay objects discovered during dig at ancient city of Umm el-Marra could be earliest known alphabet (Glenn Schwartz, Johns Hopkins University) ...

The symbols they used were called hieroglyphs, which comes from a Greek word meaning ‘sacred carving’. The ancient Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs had been invented by the gods . The ...

Archaeology & History World’s Oldest Alphabet Turns Up in Ancient Syrian Tomb. The writing was found on cylinders dating back to around 2400 B.C.E.

An ancient lice comb, believed to be from around 1700 BCE, has on it the oldest known sentence written in first alphabet. Dafna Gazit, Israel Antiquities Authority 2022-11-12T12:07:28Z ...

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.

But Schwartz, over time, began to explore the possibility that the symbols on the cylinders could be an early Semitic alphabet dating to the Bronze Age. After the discovery of the first artifact, the ...

The Armenian alphabet is not just a writing system: it's also a numerical system used for mathematical calculations and recording calendar dates, as well as a national point of pride.

Clay objects discovered during a dig at the ancient city of Umm el-Marra were engraved with symbols that may be part of the earliest known alphabet. Glenn Schwartz, Johns Hopkins University ( CC ...

And yet, while the tablet dates back thousands of years before Sumerian and still more thousands of years before the ancient Greek alphabet emerged around 770 BC, researchers said the Dispilio ...