Early Bronze Age seals from Therasia, Greece may rewrite Aegean history, pointing to the Cyclades as the birthplace of ancient writing.

Most scholarship on early Greek alphabetic writing has focused on the questions around the origin of 'the Greek alphabet', instead of acknowledging the diversity of alphabetic systems that emerged in ...

The mosaic, measuring approximately 3 meters by 3 meters, features Ancient Greek writing and depicts a female figure. Reports indicate that the suspects attempted to sell the vineyard house where ...

Long before the “A, B, C Song” — built upon the Latin alphabet — and the alphas, betas and gammas of Ancient Greek ... “Alphabets revolutionized writing by making it accessible to ...

Although soft brushes had been the major writing and drawing tools throughout Chinese history, hard tools were the earliest " pens" of ancient Chinese, Li said. On the pottery of the Neolithic age ...

Archeologists discovered simple stone tools that date back an estimated 700,000 years. The discovery was made at Greece's oldest site where ancient humans were thought to exist. It also pushes the ...

If those students are seeking relevance of ancient Greek writing, I suggest they attend or read the play, "Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles," currently on stage at the Armory. This play about ...

wide—are early examples of a writing system known as Linear B. Used for a very ancient form of Greek, Linear B consisted of about 87 signs, each representing one syllable. (Related: "New Layer ...

Prior to the advent of writing around 3,000 ... eventually formed the kingdom of the ancient Assyrians used the tokens as primitive record-keeping tools. These particular tokens dug up in ...

A modern scientific analysis of ancient stone tools is challenging long-held beliefs ... which could be traced to the neighboring Mycenaean Greek mainland. At roughly the same time, many important ...