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We tend to take it for granted, but the alphabet was a human invention. Without it, we wouldn’t read books and newspapers or write shopping lists and e-mails. We would have to rely on recitations and ...

A death mask from the third or second century bc found in the Phoenician trading city of Carthage in what is now Tunisia. An ancient Middle Eastern civilization that developed an early alphabet spread ...

WASHINGTON (October 30, 2008)—The Phoenicians gave the world the alphabet and a love of the color purple, and a research study published today by Genographic scientists in the American Journal of ...

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 alphabet was invented by Semites, not by Phoenicians, as scholars have thought. This is the conclusion reached by Professor Martin Sprengling of the University of Chicago, who has deciphered the ...

The Phoenicians gave the world the alphabet and a love of the color purple, and a new study shows that they left some people their genes as well. The study finds that as many as one in 17 men in the ...