Enhanced Games are just around the corner, and Australian former Olympic swimmer James Magnussen looks more than ready and an ...

In Greek, the “Word” is logos. In the Bible, logos is much more than just a single distinct meaningful element of speech or ...

Every year on 24 May, Bulgaria marks one of its most cherished national holidays - The Day of the Holy Brothers Cyril and Methodius, of the Bulgarian Alphabet, Education and Culture, and of Slavic ...

It is commonly believed that the Romans copied the Greek pantheon, merely changing the names of the gods. In reality, it wasn ...

In 1948, a young physicist made a groundbreaking discovery about the origins of the universe—only to have his moment eclipsed ...

Previously, archaeologists assumed the Phoenicians descended from the Canaanites, a biblical people from present ... whose 22-consonant alphabet laid the foundation for the Greek writing system. The ...

The Greek alphabet, traditionally believed to have emerged in the eighth century BC, is now undergoing reevaluation thanks to groundbreaking research at Leiden University. The writing system is ...

Early Greek alphabet painted on the body of an Attic black-figure ... Koine is also the language of the Christian New Testament, of the Septuagint (the 3rd century BC Greek translation of the Hebrew ...

We still cannot pinpoint with certainty when or where the alphabet was first created ... and the shape of several of the signs,” says Rollston, a professor of Biblical and Near Eastern languages and ...

The text is part of Bishop Wulfila's translation of the Bible from Greek into Gothic, made in the 4th century. Wulfila is the oldest known non-mythical constructor of an alphabet. Codex Argenteus, an ...

μονός [monos], single τόνος [tonos], accent Some letters of the Greek alphabet are identical to Latin ones though some of them sound different: B [v], Η [ee], Ι [ee], Ρ [r], Υ [ee ...

In order to produce a Gothic translation of the Bible, Ulfilas had to devise a new alphabet, which he largely borrowed from Greek. Indeed, scholars such as Wilhelm Braune have noted the similarities ...