What good is a language if it’s too sacred to use? This year, on the occasion of the Feast of the Holy Translators, ...

Alphabet is one of the most financially sound companies on the face of the planet. As of Sept. 30, it had a net cash position ...

Small clay cylinders from an ancient Syrian tomb have letters etched into them. The 2400-year-old tablets are the oldest ...

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Found etched into clay cylinders in Syria, the strange symbols date to around 2400 B.C.E.—500 years before other known ...

“It’s an alphabet. It’s easy-peasy. I’m used to much tougher things.” “The morphology of the letters on the cylinder seals ...

A finger-sized clay cylinder from a tomb in northern Syria appears to be the oldest example of writing using an alphabet ...

Although far from the oldest writing we have found, these cylinders are 500 years older than any previously known example of alphabetic script, if that is indeed what they carry.

A third group had to write the letter by hand. While all of the participants ... In an experiment, a team of researchers had 42 English-speaking adults learn the Arabic alphabet. All the participants ...

What appears to be evidence of some of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history is etched onto finger-length, clay ...

At an archaeological excavation site in western Syria, Schwartz unearthed a “finger-length” clay cylinder with etched letters ...