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Archaeology breakthrough as Greek alphabet 'centuries older' than previously thought
The Greek alphabet, believed to have emerged in the eighth century BC, is now undergoing a major reevaluation thanks to ...
Greek Reporter7h
Was the Ancient Phoenician Script a True Alphabet?
Was the Phoenician writing system a true alphabet? If not, what should it be called instead, and what was the earliest true alphabet?
Greek Reporter6d
New Findings Suggest Greek Alphabet Is Older Than Previously Thought
The Greek alphabet, believed to have emerged in the eighth century BC, is undergoing reevaluation by Leiden University.
Greek City Times1d
Greek DNA Discovered in Phoenician Origins, Study Reveals
A new study in *Nature* reveals the Phoenicians, famed for their Mediterranean trade and alphabet, were not solely from the ...
The Art Newspaper3d
The Voynich Manuscript revealed: five things you probably didn't know about the Medieval masterpiece
Scholars have speculated for centuries about the meaning behind the 15th-century codex and its peculiar illustrations ...
NewsNation4d
Runestone may prove Vikings were in Oklahoma 1,000 years ago
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 New Yorker3d
The Scrolls from the Dead Sea
He decided to study the problem himself, and, coming back to Jerusalem, he got his friend from the Department of Antiquities to supply him with some books on the Hebrew alphabet. The Syrian ...