Prepare to dive deep into the fascinating history of the letters G, J, U, W, and Y. Ever wondered why these seemingly ordinary letters have such a peculiar backstory? This exploration uncovers the ...

Beside my grandparents’ apartment door stands a potted plant with a note to fellow building occupants, handwritten in ...

New scientific research confirms Irish provenance of manuscripts on loan from Switzerland, returning to Ireland for the first ...

Boris I of Bulgaria (also known as Boris-Mihail), who reigned from 852 to 889, is remembered as one of the most influential and transformative rulers in Bulgarian history. His reign marked a turning ...

At a calligraphy class in Hanoi, Hoang Thi Thanh Huyen slides her brush across the page to form the letters and tonal marks ...

similar to the Latin alphabet. In contrast, the Ancient Greek language used only capital letters, with no lowercase. The lowercase Greek letters were developed much later by medieval scribes. This ...

Crucially, other inscriptions in medieval Britain show that the Britons also used a more recognisable form of the letter ‘s’. Therefore, could this indicate that two different forms of the Latin ...

In fact, in early medieval England ... was an alphabet that was used in England prior to the adoption of the Latin alphabet from the 7th century. Old English riddles offer an excellent insight ...

In fact, in early medieval England ... was an alphabet that was used in England prior to the adoption of the Latin alphabet from the 7th century. To truly understand many riddles, you need ...

Commissioned by the people behind a joint Glasgow-Maynooth research project on the old ogham alphabet ... Clearly the scribes of medieval Ireland, unlike Frank Sinatra, never found their regrets ...

BISHKEK -- The five countries of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS) have overcome years of disagreements about letters and diacritical marks to agree on a common Latin alphabet for their ...

Staveless Futkar runes were simplification of Younger Futhark, a runic alphabet of the viking age. In order to create the staveless runes, vertical marks (or staves) were dropped from individual runes ...