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Who created the alphabet? A historian describes the millennia-long story of the ABCs
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 4 months agoCreating the alphabet took thousands of years. kovalchuk/iStock via Getty Images Plus Curious Kids...
The letter X: Marks the spot
Quartz via Yahoo Finance· 1 year agoThe alphabet’s wayward child The letter “X,” the 24th letter of the English alphabet, is something of a rebel. Read more A marker of the mysterious, the...
‘After 1177 B.C.’ Review: How the Bronze Age Turned Iron
The Wall Street Journal· 2 months agoBOOKSHELF The Bronze Age in the Near East and Aegean region began around 3000 B.C. It peaked in the...
Ten Years Ago, His Book About Civilizational Collapse Got Unexpectedly Popular. He’s Back With a...
Slate via Yahoo News· 2 months agoTen years ago, archaeologist Eric Cline’s book 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed became a...
Mountain State Destinations: Grave Creek Mound
WVNS Bluefield via Yahoo News· 4 months agoMOUNDSVILLE, WV (WVNS) — Not all destinations in West Virginia lie above the surface. So what interesting secrets are hiding beneath the ground?...
Forget Rome and Greece – the West was created by many cultures
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 4 months agoBy the 14th century, it was well known that all roads led to Rome – or, as Chaucer put it, that...
