An inscription on an 1,100-year-old breastplate found in a ruined fortress in Bulgaria may contain one of the earliest known examples of Cyrillic text, researchers claim. When you purchase through ...

The inscription was only discovered in the aftermath After the plate was found, a conservation procedure revealed a shallow inscription in Cyrillic letters. The researchers found a quite long Old ...

Written on parchment, the fragment represents one of the oldest forms of the Cyrillic script and is important in the history of Slavonic literacy and more particular, of the translations from Greek ...

English aside, there’s more Russian on the Web than any other language and Cyrillic isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. Russians would rather give up mayonnaise than switch to the Roman script.

But they’d be wrong! The numerals were Cyrillic, and this is what they looked like: Anton Romanov This number system used Old Slavonic Cyrillic characters in alphabetical order. A special symbol ...

“All younger people are starting to use Latin because of their phones and computers, so I don’t know if there is a future for Cyrillic,” says 14-year-old student Lazar Nikolic. Created in ...

The 76-year-old leader has long called for ditching the Cyrillic alphabet - which Kazakhstan shares with neighbour and ally Russia - in favour of the more widely used Latin one. In an article ...