The ancient Egyptians ... to the hieroglyphic code. Hieroglyphs could be written vertically, horizontally, left to right, or right to left! The phonetic hieroglyph alphabet is the closest ...

Using trowels and brushes to remove ancient soil at an Early Bronze Age burial site in Umm el-Marra ... But Schwartz, over time, began to explore the possibility that the symbols on the cylinders ...

Long before the “A, B, C Song” — built upon the Latin alphabet — and the alphas, betas and gammas of Ancient Greek, cultures around the world were communicating with one another.