The modern Greek alphabet is missing some of the letters used in ancient times. What are these missing letters, and what happened to them?

Greek, the oldest written language still in use, has shaped culture, philosophy, and science for over 3,700 years.

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A team of early-career researchers at the University of Cologne has succeeded in decoding a script that has been puzzling scholars for over seventy years: the so-called ‘unknown Kushan script’. Over a ...

This article originally appeared in The Conversation. If you were to visit a bookshop in the ancient world, what would it be like? You don’t just have to imagine it. The ancient Roman writer Aulus ...

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