These rune meanings offer a fascinating glimpse into ancient symbolism and Norse mythology. These aren’t just simple written ...

Linguistic experts identified a mysterious alphabet carved on an ancient stone tablet from ruined Tartessian site in Guareña, officials said. Screengrab from video shared on X, formerly Twitter, by ...

Spanish archaeologists recently announced the discovery of an ancient stone with perplexing symbols carved onto it. The symbols, experts believe, are actually an ancient alphabet. If their ...

In 2004, while she was still a meticulous young graduate student, Elaine Sullivan made a discovery that would deepen the history of human writing. Using trowels and brushes to remove ancient soil at ...

A tantalizing, but badly damaged tablet dating back to, at least, 5079 BC could predate the earliest known human writing by millennia. That's if researchers can decode it. Known to archeologists as ...

The following chart shows some of the International Phonetic Alphabet symbols and sounds they represent. Use it to decode the words found on your "Sound Communication" handout. The underlined portion ...

For decades, it's been a common belief that the Ancient Egyptians were responsible for the very first alphabet. Now, a shocking finding challenges this assumption, pushing back the age of the first ...