However, archaeologists who believe cuneiform came first argue that its development may have inspired the Egyptians to create ...

From my perspective, there’s almost nothing more thrilling than learning to use a new writing system. You’re gaining access to a whole secret code that many others cannot penetrate. The romance of ...

Four small, clay tablets, unearthed in 2004, are finally gaining attention as possibly the first evidence of an alphabet, but ...

Nearly 4000 years ago a hieroglyphic script was used on Crete which predates Linear A and Linear B, indeed any other writing in Europe, but remains undeciphered since its discovery at the beginning of ...

To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching. Middle Egyptian introduces the reader to the writing system of ancient Egypt and the ...

Recent research has led to new conclusions about the origin of writing with important new understanding on human cognitive ...

The ancient Egyptians invented one of the earliest known writing systems used from around 3000 BC. The symbols they used were called hieroglyphs, which comes from a Greek word meaning ...

It has its roots in Egyptian hieroglyphics, but unlike those, it represents individual sounds, called phonemes, rather than complete ideas or words. It was used by the ancient inhabitants of the Sinai ...

First discovered in 2004 but confirmed thanks to recent carbon dating, researchers found the world's oldest alphabet in a Syrian tomb.

The Egyptians gradually developed their pictorial system, laboring over millennia ... is especially evident in hieroglyphic writing during the Late Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Dynasties.