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In the era of the Cold War, the moniker 'Third World' emerged to delineate nations abstaining from alignment with either the Western bloc (NATO) or the Eastern sphere, the Communist bloc.
Archaeologists say they have uncovered evidence of what may be the world's oldest known alphabet. The alphabetic writing system was identified on finger-length clay cylinders excavated from a tomb ...
"Previously, scientists believed that the alphabet was invented in or around Egypt sometime after 1900 BC. But our artifacts are older and come from a different area on the map, which suggests that ...
US researchers have discovered what appears to be the oldest known alphabetic writing in the world, after finding ... Long before alphabet came into existence, human civilisations used different ...