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Who created the alphabet? A historian describes the millennia-long story of the ABCs
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 3 months agoCreating the alphabet took thousands of years. kovalchuk/iStock via Getty Images Plus Curious Kids...
An engraving on an ancient ivory lice comb is the oldest known sentence written in the first...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAn ancient lice comb, believed to be from around 1700 BCE, has on it the oldest known sentence...
Researchers Are Breaking Ancient Language Barriers With AI
Decrypt Media via Yahoo Finance· 11 months agoDeciphering ancient languages and texts has been a challenge for archaeologists for generations....
First Sentence Ever Found in Ancient Alphabet, and It's About Beard Lice
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 2 years agoArchaeologists in Israel say they have found the first-known written sentence in Canaanite, an...
Steven Spielberg’s ‘The Fabelmans’ to Open Cairo Film Festival
Variety via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSteven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans” will open the 44th edition of the Cairo Film Festival, the Arab...
British Museum launches hieroglyphs exhibition to mark special anniversary
Press Association News via AOL· 2 years agoThe British Museum has launched a major exhibition to mark 200 years since the decipherment of...
Rosetta Stone moved for first time in 18 years
Press Association News via AOL· 2 years agoThe Rosetta Stone has temporarily moved to a special exhibition in the British Museum to celebrate 200 years since hieroglyphs were decoded. It is the...
World’s ‘oldest written sentence’ discovered on headlice comb
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe first ever sentence from 3,700 years ago, a plea to remove hair lice, has been discovered etched...
‘After 1177 B.C.’ Review: How the Bronze Age Turned Iron
The Wall Street Journal· 1 month agoBOOKSHELF The Bronze Age in the Near East and Aegean region began around 3000 B.C. It peaked in the...
Sperm whale speech — with ‘alphabet’ — is decoded. What other animals can AI translate?
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoFor years, scientists have listened to the clicks of sperm whales and wondered what they were...