The original “Y” entered the alphabet as “upsilon” or our “U.” Around 100 AD Romans added “Y” to their alphabet, usually to denote something of Greek origins. Z ...

That the alphabet has survived, in one form or another, for so long is a testament to its usefulness and durability—to the genius of it. The Phoenician alphabet was all consonants.

The Greek alphabet, ... The writing system is derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet and is the earliest known alphabetic script to systematically write vowels as well as consonants.

In Archaic and early Classical times, the Greek alphabet existed in many local variants. However, by the end of the fourth century BC, the Ionic-based Euclidean alphabet, made up of 24 letters ...

The Greek alphabet was developed from the Phoenician alphabet and has been in use since the late 9th or early 8th century BC.

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 ...

By the sixth century BCE, Carthage, a Phoenician coastal colony in what is now Tunisia, had risen to dominate the region, and Phoenician culture thrived farther west until its destruction in 146 BCE.

Curious Sicily and Sardinia. Season 5 Episode 503 | 27m 56s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Phoenician ruins, temple to Venus in Erice, Cagliari medieval walls, Sicilian street food.

A seven-word inscription discovered by accident on a 3,700-year-old lice comb is the oldest known sentence written in an alphabet, according to a new study.