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

A newly deciphered letter home dating back around 1,800 years reveals the pleas of a young Egyptian soldier named Aurelius Polion who was serving, probably as a volunteer, in a Roman legion in Europe ...

Ancient writing — using possibly ‘oldest known alphabet ... thousands of years ago. The Ancient Egyptians developed ... or written language made of individual letters, is a newer ...

The writing comprised 17 letters, two of which were damaged. Crucially, they seem to form a complete and understandable sentence written in an ancient Canaanite language spoken at Tel Lachish.

While early writing systems emerged in Mesopotamia and Egypt over 5,000 years ago, they used symbols rather than a bona fide alphabet, which appeared significantly later, around 1800 BCE.

Bad dreams scared the ancient Egyptians, who feared that evil spirits or demons would visit them in their sleep. The oldest recorded nightmare dates back 4,000 years, when writing letters to ...