Egyptian hieroglyphs were fully unlocked 200 years ago, when the Rosetta Stone was deciphered. Yet long before that, Arabic scholars had made their own discoveries with these ancient scripts ...

AMMAN - The Safaitic script belongs to the group of South Semitic scripts and was used by Arabs in southern Syria, northern Jordan and the area of ...

KOZHIKODE: Hidden in ancient mosques, dusty library shelves, and the private collections of old Malabar households lie ...

World’s Oldest Alphabet Turns Up in Ancient Syrian Tomb. The writing was found on cylinders dating back to around 2400 B.C.E. Photo: Courtesy of Glenn Schwarz, Johns Hopkins University.

AMMAN — The Safaitic script belongs to the group of South Semitic scripts and was used by Arabs in southern Syria, northern Jordan and the area of the Black Desert. There are thousands of inscriptions ...