For younger kids, use alphabet books to introduce the letters of the alphabet and their sounds. Noticing uppercase and lowercase letters. Learn new words! For older kids, use alphabet books to learn ...

The early history of the alphabet may require rewriting. Four clay artefacts found at an ancient site in Syria are incised with what is potentially the earliest alphabetic writing ever found. The ...

Words found written in ink on a broken pottery sherd from Tel Lachish, Israel, represent a “missing link” in the history of the alphabet, write researchers in the journal Antiquity. Though the writing ...

Historians distinguish between prehistory and the history of primitive writing, but disagree on when prehistory becomes history and when proto-writing becomes real "writing", as this definition is ...