A clay artifact, about the size of a finger, was discovered during an excavation at the ancient city of Umm el-Marra in Syria. The engraved symbols may be part of the earliest known alphabet, but not ...

Click to open image viewer. 1993-151-428 -33 - The box, fabricated of heavy natural cardboard, is imprinted in red on the attached lid: Upper left, in sans serif capital letters, Blocks (underscored)/ ...

Alphabets of the world : originally published as Grammatography, a manual of reference to the alphabets of ancient and modern languages, based on the German compilation of F. Ballhorn / [edited by C.S ...