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While excavating clay cylinders in Syria, archaeologists discovered a rare find: an early writing system. The script has given scholars the new challenge of reinvestigating the timeline of alphabetic ...

If your starter word contains a rarely used letter, rethink your strategy. Here are the most commonly used letters in the alphabet. CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture ...

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A sign at the White House that sparked backlash and mockery from Democrats and others has been removed. The gold-lettered sign identifying “The Oval Office” that had been affixed outside the office’s ...

Archaeologists finally broke the cipher on 255 strange symbols etched into a Canadian rock over 200 years ago — and it’s the Lord’s Prayer… in Swedish. Discovered in 2018 after a tree fell near Wawa, ...

The Greek alphabet is one of the most enduring and influential writing systems in human history. From its origins in the 8th century BCE, it laid the foundation for the Latin alphabet and by extension ...

Early Greek alphabet painted on the body of an Attic black-figure cup. Today, there are missing letters in the Greek alphabet. Credit: flickr / Dan Diffendale CC BY-SA 2.0 The Greek alphabet has ...