Towards the end of the 1970s, the Greek politician flirted with the idea of furthering Greece’s progress and European identity by introducing the Latin alphabet to the Greek language and making the ...

“I worked really carefully because when you find writing, that’s always an exciting thing in the ancient world ... back our recognition of the alphabet by centuries.” ...

Archaeologists have discovered some of the earliest-known stone fragments containing Germanic letter inscriptions at a grave ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has brought ancient languages to ... The invention of ink writing using reed brushes and pens in Egypt marked a significant milestone. Hieratic and hieroglyphic scripts ...

Piecing together fragments of the world's earliest known rune stone, which may be more than 2,000 years old, shows they fit together like a jigsaw puzzle.

Strange carvings at Norwegian grave site reveal what language was like before Vikings - Stone fragments inscribed with runes ...

A team of researchers has found fragments of the oldest rune stone in the world in the Svingerud burial field, Norway. These ...

The next transformative step in language development was the invention of writing. Around 3100 BCE, humans began using ...

From an animal's tusk, it was worked into a small personal hygiene tool, inscribed with a modest wish, and eventually, ...

Highway workers found an ancient Roman cemetery, including a grave filled with a curious substance, during a recent highway construction project in England. The announcement was made last week by ...