A mucousy pendulum hanging from his left nostril and set gently swaying by his own insistent mouth-breathing, your three year old toddles up to you, holding in one hand a drawing for your approval.

What we now know as the modern English alphabet first appeared thousands of years ago, a new research project into its origin and spread has found. It was used more than 3,000 years ago in the ancient ...

The knotty question of the origins of our alphabet has been partly straightened out by the discovery of a comb. In June 2016, an archaeological excavation of the ancient Canaanite city of Lachish led ...

In late December I recommended one of my favorite recent books off my reading list – recent in this case meaning when I read them, not necessarily when they were published. That was Empires of the ...