What is the Oldest Alphabet in the World? Check What Historians Discovered!

Discover what the oldest alphabet in the world is. Learn how the oldest script has shaped modern writing and transformed ...
Greek Reporter

Millennia-Old Unknown Alphabet in Dead Sea Scrolls Deciphered, Scholar Claims

A scholar claims to have deciphered Cryptic B, a mysterious alphabet in the Dead Sea Scrolls long thought impossible to read.
University of Sheffield

Writing Systems #3 - Let’s Forget the Alphabet

Today, after spending two weeks on Punjabi and its writing system Gurmukhi, it’s time to have a little look at some of the terms I have thrown around in those blogs. Off There are many different ...
Scroll

Between the lines: What Kazakhstan’s move from Russian Cyrillic script to Latin alphabet signifies

Kazakhstan is to adopt a new alphabet, replacing the Russian Cyrillic script with the alphabet you are reading at the moment. This was announced in October by the Kazakh president, Nursultan ...
The New York Times

A Tour of Writing’s History Bounces From Script to Script

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 ...
New Scientist

The alphabet may have been invented 500 years earlier than we thought

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 Sunday Times

From Brahmi script to modern Sinhala alphabet

Nimal Herath, an engineer by profession, has now written a book on ‘epigraphy’, the study of inscriptions. How he moved from engineering to archaeology, particularly to paleography, is a matter of ...