The writing comprised 17 letters, two of which were damaged. Crucially, they seem to form a complete and understandable sentence written in an ancient Canaanite language spoken at Tel Lachish.

Ancient Egypt was closely connected with other parts of the world, bringing in and exporting goods, ... until hieroglyphic writing was deciphered in the 19th century, ...

Starting in about 3500 BC, various writing systems developed in ancient civilizations around the world ... known alphabet was ...

World’s Oldest Alphabet Turns Up in Ancient Syrian Tomb. ... (which is the world’s earliest form of writing, predating Egyptian hieroglyphics and first used more than 5,000 years ago).

The knowledge of writing is not very old compared to human history. It was only invented 5,000 years ago. It is one of the ...

Research is revealing the hieroglyphic texts from within the tomb of an Egyptian scribe. A review of how ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics were first translated 200 years ago, and a look at the ...

Hieroglyphics is an ancient Egyptian language which uses pictures and symbols to describe objects and sounds. It is one of the earliest known writing systems, and was used from around 3000 BC ...

A seven-word inscription discovered by accident on a 3,700-year-old lice comb is the oldest known sentence written in an alphabet, according to a new study.

Did Arab scholars contribute to deciphering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics years before Frenchman Jean-François Champollion Ancient Egyptian civilisation has always fascinated the world with its ...

That alphabet, called Proto-Sinaitic, is based on hieroglyphic symbols repurposed as letters. The new finding suggests instead that people in farther-flung reaches of the Near East experimented ...

His accounts of ancient Egyptian history were preserved by ancient Greek writers and, until hieroglyphic writing was deciphered in the 19th century, were among the few historical accounts that ...

A seven-word inscription discovered by accident on a 3,700-year-old lice comb is the oldest known sentence written in an alphabet, according to a new study.