From Latin and Chinese to Tamil and Telugu, discover the top ten most popular writing scripts used around the world ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Martin Puchner THE GREATEST INVENTION A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts By Silvia ...

Today, after spending two weeks on Punjabi and its writing system Gurmukhi, it’s time to have a little look at some of the terms I have thrown around in those blogs. Off There are many different ...

Kazakhstan is to adopt a new alphabet, replacing the Russian Cyrillic script with the alphabet you are reading at the moment. This was announced in October by the Kazakh president, Nursultan ...

New research confirms that letter shapes become predictably simpler over time to make reading and writing more efficient. The first letter in the English alphabet is famously thought to be descended ...

The early history of the alphabet may require rewriting. Four clay artefacts found at an ancient site in Syria are incised with what is potentially the earliest alphabetic writing ever found. The ...

Nimal Herath, an engineer by profession, has now written a book on ‘epigraphy’, the study of inscriptions. How he moved from engineering to archaeology, particularly to paleography, is a matter of ...