Besides those who were slain on the battlefield by day, many soldiers – including his fellow officers – were killed in the ...

New research led by Associate Professor Willemijn Waal suggests that the Greek alphabet may have originated centuries earlier ...

The Greek alphabet, believed to have emerged in the eighth century BC, is undergoing reevaluation by Leiden University.

It's always fun to find signs and images in the natural world, from faces in wood whorls to accidental optical illusions. So ...

The year 2025 marks the 40th anniversary of Dr Reiner Knizia’s career as a board game designer – his first published game, ...

Researchers explored how manual and keyboard practice influenced children's abilities in their reading and writing learning process. 5-year-olds were taught an artificial alphabet using different ...

To Ringbauer’s surprise, people from Mediterranean outposts of Phoenician culture—also known as Punic people—shared no ...

To study this history, population geneticist Harald Ringbauer at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in ...

The IMA highlights the art of writing in the Arab world, with the exhibition "Ecrire ou calligraphier? The Arabic alphabet sublimated", on view from February 5 to September 21, 2025. To be read ...

In recent statements made to the daily Hürriyet, Professor Mustafa Öner, a member of the joint commission that established the new common alphabet, confirmed that ‘the letters Q, X, Ň, Ä, Ŭ will not ...

The ancient Greeks named the Phoenicians the "purple people" because of the rare purple dye they made out of snail shells, but they were much more than that: they were the Mediterranean seafarers who ...