Who invented the alphabet, and why? First, the hard facts: The earliest evidence of what’s thought to be the world’s first alphabet is a group of 3,500-year-old inscriptions found in Egypt’s ...

SAN ANTONIO — The world’s earliest alphabet, inscribed on stone slabs at several Egyptian sites, was an early form of Hebrew, a controversial new analysis concludes. Israelites living in Egypt ...

may contain the oldest alphabet in the world, a Canadian expert contends. According to Douglas Petrovich, an ancient-inscription specialist, archeologist and professor of Egyptian history at ...

You may not have learned it in elementary school, but this formula goes back to the earliest history of the Latin alphabet and its origins in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. Of all the world's ...