Times New Roman, designed in 1931 by Stanley Morison, directly descends from this rich heritage of Roman and Renaissance ...

Several years ago, archaeologists unearthed a small ivory comb at Tel Lachish in Israel, once a major Canaanite city-state in the second millennium BCE. But it wasn’t until last December that someone ...

The Canannites invented the first alphabet about 3,800 years ago. The letters, instead of hieroglyphics like those used in Egypt, became the basis for written Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. English, ...

To say that mystery glyphs look like “early alphabetic letters” is to say that they look like crude versions of hieroglyphs 24 April, p 15. Finding such hieroglyphs in Syria 850 years before reliably ...