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!

The alphabet was invented by illiterate Canaanite miners in ancient Egypt who turned elaborate hieroglyphs into basic letters 4,000 years ago, a study claimed.. In 2006, Egyptologist Orly ...

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) ...

IPA Symbols and Sounds. The following chart shows some of the International Phonetic Alphabet symbols and sounds they represent. Use it to decode the words found on your "Sound Communication" handout.

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 ...

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 ...

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.