Alphabet is at risk of needing to make substantial changes to its business due to regulators' antitrust lawsuits. It may be forced to give up key deals with third parties such as Apple. Alphabet ...

“It changes the entire narrative of how the alphabet was introduced,” Schwartz says. Small holes drilled into the cylinders could have been used to string them on thread. As such, the clay ...

Clay objects roughly the size of fingers were discovered during a dig at the ancient city of Umm el-Marra. The engraved symbols may be part of the earliest known ...

Researchers have discovered evidence of what they say is the world’s oldest alphabet, believed to have existed in the Middle East hundreds of years earlier than other ancient scripts.

Recovered during excavations in a tomb in Syria, the writing is believed to date to around 2400 BCE. This new finding disrupts how archaeologists understand where the alphabet originated, and how it ...

"Previously, scholars thought the alphabet was invented in or around Egypt sometime after 1900 BCE," Schwartz said. "But our artifacts are older and from a different area on the map, suggesting the ...

"Previously, scholars thought the alphabet was invented in or around Egypt sometime after 1900 BCE," Schwartz said. "But our artifacts are older and from a different area on the map, suggesting ...