ISTANBUL -- Iraqi calligrapher Ali Zaman gazes with pride at his masterpiece — a colossal, handwritten manuscript of the ...

While excavating clay cylinders in Syria, archaeologists discovered a rare find: an early writing system. The script has given scholars the new challenge of reinvestigating the timeline of alphabetic ...

From Devanagari and Gurmukhi to French and Latin scripts, Scripted Dialogues—A Calligraphic Conversation brings together ...

The remote temple of Hathor at Serabit al-Khadim was more than a mine and a sanctuary—it was a crucible of civilization. Here, amidst the sacred turquoise mines that funded pharaohs from the Great ...

Discover some surprising facts about Urdu, including how much it has in common with other languages. Also available in Urdu with audio. 'I don't understand!' Learn this phrase in Urdu, as well as many ...

Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work covers anything from archaeology and the environment to technology and culture. Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work ...

In 2012, Sanya* joined an institute to learn MS Office. When the teacher was delivering a lecture, she noticed the girl sitting next to her was writing furiously. Her pen danced across the page like ...

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Bhopal: A private school in Madhya Pradesh’s Raisen district has landed in a controversy for using Urdu and Islamic terms in the alphabet learning chart prepared for nursery students. A student’s kin ...

Banu Mushtaq, the first Kannada writer to win the International Booker Prize, earlier this year, visited Bengaluru to meet and greet students and teachers at the Mount Carmel College. During her ...

The Greek alphabet is one of the most enduring and influential writing systems in human history. From its origins in the 8th century BCE, it laid the foundation for the Latin alphabet and by extension ...

Early Greek alphabet painted on the body of an Attic black-figure cup. Today, there are missing letters in the Greek alphabet. Credit: flickr / Dan Diffendale CC BY-SA 2.0 The Greek alphabet has ...