The alphabet song won't help you in the case of this viral riddle Social media’s newest brain game has a ton of people stumped. So stumped, in fact, that the riddle has gone viral. People are ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. Who created ...

It’s time to talk about those scamps at the end of the alphabet: x, y and z. Despite being first in this group of three, “x” is a bit of a follower. It’s in the middle and end of some excellent words.

Writing is an integral part of our world. It is one of the foundations not only of education, but also of the first version of the Internet. Before coming to us, it existed for many, many years. It ...

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

Macquarie University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Curious Kids is a series for children. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...

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 ...

A sequence of letters belonging to an ancient alphabet has been discovered in a most unusual way — by someone scrolling through social media. The inscription, on a slate slab unearthed in Spain, is ...

The comb is made of ivory and inscribed with the sentence: "May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard." Credit: Dafna Gazit, Israel Antiquities Authority The oldest sentence written in ...