Spanish archaeologists recently announced the discovery of an ancient stone with perplexing symbols carved onto it. The symbols, experts believe, are actually an ancient alphabet. If their ...

The chart shows the relative ups and downs in species counts, telling scientists about the origin, diversification, and ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. The ancient Egyptians invented one of the earliest known writing systems used from around 3000 BC. The symbols they ...

for example—these did not make use of an alphabet. Cuneiform, considered to be the oldest known writing system, was developed by the Sumerians of Mesopotamia (an ancient region centered on ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the oldest known alphabetic writing in an ancient Syrian city ... "Previously, scholars thought the alphabet was invented in or around Egypt sometime after 1900 ...

The earliest known example of alphabetic writing has been discovered etched onto small clay cylinders in an ancient Syrian tomb ... scholars thought the alphabet was invented in or around Egypt ...

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.