Today, more than 30 Mayan languages exist and are spoken by at least six million people worldwide. Although some, like Chicomuseltec and Choltí, have disappeared or are close to extinction, others, ...

“Without a means to translate the writing, we can only speculate.” The finding has the potential to upend established archaeological assumptions about the origin of the oldest known ...

Languages: English, Spanish Archaeologists say they have uncovered evidence of what may be the world's oldest known alphabet. The alphabetic writing system was identified on finger-length clay ...

said they were looking forward to more evidence that the inscriptions represent an alphabet rather than another type of writing system. “When you only have a few very short inscriptions ...

However, the academic admits he 'can only speculate' exactly what the writing says. Before the alphabet, humans relied on hieroglyphics, according to Professor Schwartz, who found the cylinders in ...

Long before the “A, B, C Song” — built upon the Latin alphabet — and the alphas ... “Alphabets revolutionized writing by making it accessible to people beyond royalty and the socially ...

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) This form of writing may have ...

and the writing. "Previously, scholars thought the alphabet was invented in or around Egypt sometime after 1900 BCE," Schwartz said. "But our artifacts are older and from a different area on the map, ...

The sons and daughters of the Mayan elites were forced to abandon hieroglyphic writing and learn to use the Latin alphabet, and most of the books written by that time, known as codices ...