Luke Farritor was the first person to decipher a word from ancient scrolls as part ... after successfully deciphering and reading more than 10 characters in a 4-square-centimeter area of a scroll.

One of the first words, written in ancient Greek ... composition of the ink has made this particular scroll easier to read through X-rays, but scientists believe it may contain one particular ...

Letters are introduced in a sequence that means that children can start making and reading lots of words quite quickly. The first letters are s, a, t, p… Along the way, we meet some double ...

Along with babies’ first steps, their first words are a milestone that lots of parents look forward to. But the line between babies making sounds and actually saying words is a bit blurry.