Long before the “A, B, C Song” — built upon the Latin alphabet ... Mesopotamia built a language from cuneiforms, or small images, thousands of years ago. The Ancient Egyptians developed ...

Yet it wasn’t too difficult for even ancient Egyptians to reach ... “And the words they are writing are in a Semitic language, so they must have been Canaanites, who we know were there ...

The Phoenicians developed their ancient civilization with profits from the lucrative maritime trade of the Mediterranean.

In a landmark discovery, a team of Israeli archaeologists have decoded the oldest known sentence in the ancient language of Canaanites ... for the use of the alphabet some 3,700 years ago.

The ancient Egyptians invented one of the earliest known writing systems used from around ... everyday ancient Egyptian language and a Greek translation. Since Greek was understood, the ...

Reading ancient literature in its original language will give you a deeper understanding of influential ancient texts, and basic insights into the structure of modern languages. Demonstrated ...