The Ancient Greek Dark Ages came after the powerful Mycenaean Era. But what actually were the Greek Dark Ages, and how did ...

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.

Scientists have deciphered Greek letters from a Herculaneum scroll that was burned by the explosion of Vesuvius 2,000 years ...

While still a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, UC Santa Cruz professor Elaine Sullivan unearthed ancient ...

The belief that Ancient Egyptians birthed the first alphabet is now challenged. Researchers reveal clay cylinders from Syria dating to 2400 BC may predate Egyptian hieroglyph-inspired scripts by ...

The ancient Egyptians invented one of the earliest known writing systems used from around 3000 BC. The symbols they used were called hieroglyphs, which comes from a Greek word meaning ...

In a landmark discovery, a team of Israeli archaeologists have decoded the oldest known sentence in the ancient language ... evidence for the use of the alphabet some 3,700 years ago.