The first true alphabet was an invention of the Greek world, revolutionizing writing, literacy, and shaping foundations of ...

The phases provide milestones to guide instruction from preschool to grade two reading proficiency.

The early writing appears to date to around 2400 B.C.—preceding the previous most bygone examples by roughly 500 years.

Alphabetic writing offered those illiterate to hieroglyphics—a system of over 1,000 symbols which was mastered by a very small number of society’s elite—the opportunity to read and write.

I certainly did not have any idea that it might be alphabetic symbols ... the symbols were examples of writing, they didn’t look like the kind of writing system that was being used at the ...

While cuneiform is considered the world’s oldest writing system, having emerged before 3400 BCE in Mesopotamia, it is neither an alphabet nor a language but rather a set of characters denoting ...

said they were looking forward to more evidence that the inscriptions represent an alphabet rather than another type of writing system. “When you only have a few very short inscriptions ...

Alphabetic systems are much simpler ... for more evidence that the symbols aren’t from another kind of old writing system.

Clay cylinders unearthed from a tomb in Syria and dated to 4,400 years ago are inscribed with traces of the earliest known alphabetic writing system, an analysis suggests. The tomb was discovered ...