To write for the drawer (from Russian писать в стол or писать в ящик, in Polish we say pisać do szuflady, which is somewhat similar to Russian, except we use the Latin alphabet with our tails: ą, ę, ć ...
Although far from the oldest writing we have found, these cylinders are 500 years older than any previously known example of alphabetic script, if that is indeed what they carry.
Scientists say yes—for the surprising reason that handwriting facilitates other skills, like reading and learning language, much better than typing or seeing language on a screen. In an experiment, a ...
“Alphabets revolutionized writing by making it accessible to people beyond royalty and the socially elite. Alphabetic writing changed the way people lived, how they thought, how they ...
Researchers have found a 4,400-year-old alphabet in a tomb in the Middle Eastern nation of Syria that could help archaeologists begin to decipher ancient texts and offer a new unde ...