American researchers have discovered a 3,000-year-old stone on which is written the oldest known version of the Hebrew alphabet, the precursor of all the alphabets used in the Middle East as well ...

The University of Cambridge says the modern English alphabet was first used more than 3,000 years ago in Ugarit, which is now Syria. It may have spread through travel and trade.

They formed part of the alphabet of Old English, the predecessor to Modern English used from roughly 1,000 years ago. Many are derived from old regional dialects, as well as other languages like ...

Most modern alphabets start with the letter “A,” or a near equivalent. It was also first in line in the ancient Greek and Phoenician—from which the Modern English alphabet is ultimately ...

Much of our modern alphabet comes directly from the Greek alphabet, ... Then, well into the established existence of modern English, “zee” showed up on the scene. Dr.