With so many ancient texts around the world, you might wonder which alphabet was the first to be developed. In other words, what is the oldest confirmed alphabet in the world?

The Spanish National Research Council recently announced the discovery of a written alphabet that may be 2,600 years old. It dates back to Tartessos, an ancient civilization.

Campus News Uncovering an ancient alphabet Back when she was an intrepid graduate student, renowned University of California, Santa Cruz Egyptologist Elaine Sullivan contributed to the discovery of ...

After examining ancient alphabets, Revesz determined the message to be a proto-Hungarian poem written with Greek letters. Translated into English, it reads: “Lo, behold, worship: here is the ...

Linguistic experts identified a mysterious alphabet carved on an ancient stone tablet from ruined Tartessian site in Guareña, officials said. Screengrab from video shared on X, formerly Twitter ...

Ancient Mesopotamia comes alive in Moudhy Al-Rashid's must-read, millennia-spanning history, cleverly wrought from tablets written in the world's oldest script By Emily Wilson 12 February 2025 ...