Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV + Sunday, Sept. 4 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On demand with KPBS Passport! Beginning in ancient Egypt, NOVA "A TO Z: The First Alphabet" explores some of the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A clay artifact, about the size of a finger, was discovered during an excavation at the ancient ...

The Canannites invented the first alphabet about 3,800 years ago. The letters, instead of hieroglyphics like those used in Egypt, became the basis for written Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. English, ...

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 ...

Several years ago, archaeologists unearthed a small ivory comb at Tel Lachish in Israel, once a major Canaanite city-state in the second millennium BCE. But it wasn’t until last December that someone ...

what, if they don’t, they might forget. Philologos (Hillel Halkin) discusses the inscription of the comb mentioned in this poem in “Was the Language Abraham Spoke Engraved on an Ancient Lice Comb?” ...

Writing shaped our world and the rise of human knowledge, from the trading of goods to tales of ancient goddesses and kings. Follow the evolution of the written word, from 4,000-year-old carvings in ...

The birth of writing and the first alphabet were among the world’s most vital inventions. Writing shaped our world and the rise of human knowledge, from the trading of goods to tales of ancient ...