Join Meeple Mountain to celebrate Dr Reiner Knizia’s 40 year board game career by journeying through his game portfolio, from ...

A graphology expert told a Cypriot court on Wednesday that he could not reach an “absolute conclusion” over disputed handwriting linked to a German woman accused of seizing Greek Cypriot properties in ...

The Romans regulated the writing of the letter centuries later, ... “H” secured a spot in our alphabet. I. Around 1000 BC, the letter “I” was “yod,” meaning arm and hand.

Hand-writing letters more effectively teaches reading skills compared to typing and watching videos, study finds. Credit: Getty Images. By Jill Rosen / Published. ... Greensboro, conducted an ...

Variations of the alphabet—now known as Phoenician, from the Greek word for the Canaanite region—have been found from Turkey to Spain, and survive until today in the form of the letters used ...

Researchers may have deciphered the oldest known scrap of alphabetic writing yet discovered, and it may be a nearly 4,500-year-old gift tag. A clay cylinder found in a tomb holding six skeletons ...

The words were written by the ancient Canaanites, a Near Eastern peoples who developed the earliest alphabet, an ancestor of our modern-day Latin letters. There were earlier forms of writing, with ...

Peter Dazeley/GettyImages. An abecedarius is a specific type of acrostic poem in which successive lines or verses begin with each letter of the alphabet in order. Geoffrey Chaucer’s 23-verse ...

Alphabetic writing systems are “very different” from non-alphabetic writing systems and much more streamlined and flexible, as “most alphabets consist of twenty or thirty letters,” he said.

Letters inscribed along the edges of this slate slab from the 5th century B.C. are closely related to the Phoenician alphabet, which was hugely influential Latin, Spanish and English writing systems.