With so many ancient texts around the world, you might wonder which alphabet was the first to be developed. In other words, ...

yet they were simpler than the beautiful pictorial Egyptian script on the temple walls. The Petries recognized the signs as an alphabet, though decoding the letters would take another decade ...

Researchers at the HSE Centre for Language and Brain used eye-tracking to examine how bilinguals switch between languages in response to context shifts. Script differences were found to slow down this ...

The proto-Sinaitic script developed into the Phoenician ... but the concept of an alphabet and the values of the letters themselves were new ideas. Steele is most interested in the Bronze Age ...