Letters are symbols, just like emojis or crosswalk signs ... the Greeks adopted vowels. The Greek alphabet looks a lot like ours, but our letters took their final form in Italy.

Like Roman numerals, their system borrowed letters; like the Arabic numerals we still use, it only needed one symbol for each decimal place. In the 6th century BCE, the Greek alphabet used 24 letters.

To find the symbol for pi and have an easier time typing it on your iPhone, you'd have to add the Greek keyboard to your mobile device.Here's how: Launch the Settings app. Go to General. Select ...

However, by the end of the fourth century BC, the Ionic-based Euclidean alphabet, made up of 24 letters from alpha to omega, had become standard throughout the Greek-speaking world. It is a ...

A sequence of letters belonging to an ancient alphabet has been discovered in a most unusual way — by someone scrolling through social media. The inscription, on a slate slab unearthed in Spain ...