In the mid-1970s when Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis proposed changing the Greek alphabet to Latin and introducing a more strictly phonetic spelling system, the minister of culture and a ...

As crazy as it sounds, it’s now well attested that the letter “A” started out its evolution as the Egyptian hieroglyph for an ox. But its truly mind-blowing transformation came when turquoise miners ...

President Donald Trump posted an image on social media portraying himself as the "Acting President of Venezuela," extending a series of statements and actions that have framed Washington as exercising ...

Play­fair is a trans­itional design. From the time of enlight­en­ment in the late 18th cen­tury, the broad nib quills were replaced by poin­ted steel pens. This influ­enced typo­graph­ical ...

China warns citizens against Japan visits during longest annual holiday China on Monday warned its citizens against travelling to Japan during the Lunar New Year, its longest public holiday, as ...