For centuries, historians and linguists have highlighted a deceptively simple question, what is the oldest alphabet in the world? While early writing systems like cuneiform and hieroglyphs are far ...

The early history of the alphabet may require rewriting. Four clay artefacts found at an ancient site in Syria are incised with what is potentially the earliest alphabetic writing ever found. The ...

The Cyrillic alphabet has been the third official alphabet in the European Union along with the Latin and the Greek alphabets since Bulgaria's accession in 2007. It is not by chance that Cyrillic ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Martin Puchner THE GREATEST INVENTION A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts By Silvia ...