What do ancient historical texts and modern archaeological research reveal about the origin of the Greek alphabet?

But the ancient Greeks certainly had numbers. In fact, they had what was in some ways a much more elegant system than the ...

According to Roman mythology, what was the origin of the Latin alphabet? What was its alleged connection to the script of the Greeks?

“Kappa” is a noun that refers to the 10th letter of the Greek alphabet, represented by the symbol κ. In ancient Greek, it was pronounced like the “k” sound in “sky.” The word “kappa ...

In Archaic and early Classical times, the Greek alphabet existed in many local variants. However, by the end of the fourth century BC, the Ionic-based Euclidean alphabet, made up of 24 letters ...

Illustration by Meilan Solly Even though “x” is one of the least-used letters in the English alphabet ... chose the “k” sound. They represented this sound by the Greek letter “χ ...