Recent readings on inscriptions written in an ancient alphabet, the Proto-Sinaitic Script, may well provide proof of the ...

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

“In the 1930s, the prevailing theory was of an ‘alphabetic bang,'” said Prof Waal, according to The Greek Reporter.. “It was thought that in the eighth century BC, the Greek alphabet as we ...

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 ...

Phoenician city-states shared languages — recorded with an alphabet that was a precursor to Greek and Latin letters — religious practices and maritime trading economies.

There will be no Hurricane Pi, Rho, Sigma or Tau.. The Greek alphabet has been retired as a way of identifying tropical storms, the World Meteorological Organization said on Wednesday.. The ...

As of now, there is no “plan B” if the Greek alphabet is exhausted. However, those odds are infinitesimal. Hurricanes have been named since 1953, and the list of 21 names (Q, U, X,Y, and Z are ...

GHIL'AD: So, when Greek used the alphabet of Phoenician it had to introduce some vowels. JACK: Yes, yes, I see. GHIL'AD: And therefore, we have in Greek we have more letters than in Phoenician.