In 1999, Filipinos in San Francisco found a more permanent way to keep the Baybayin language around. Many went under the ...

What do ancient historical texts and modern archaeological research reveal about the origin of the Greek alphabet?

Baybayin is the written language of the Philippines. Originally called Alibata by historians, the language decreased in use ...

Study challenges long-standing beliefs about the Mediterranean Phoenician-Punic civilization, a culture recognized as one of ...

Was the Phoenician writing system a true alphabet? If not, what should it be called instead, and what was the earliest true ...

Pope Leo I tangled with Attila the Hun and won. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor. This is the ...

The Greek alphabet, believed to have emerged in the eighth century BC, is now undergoing a major reevaluation thanks to ...

When Alf Monge, a former U.S. Army Cryptographer who was born in Norway and broke a Japanese code during WWII, looked at the ...

The Voynich Manuscript is one of the most famous mysteries in ancient codicology or paleography. This illustrated manuscript, authored by an unknown writer and ...

It was previously believed that the Levantine DNA of the Phoenicians spread as far as their famous alphabet, which influenced ...