In its earliest iterations, the Greek alphabet included several additional characters – letters that have since disappeared ...

Perhaps the most well-known of the lost Greek letters is Digamma. Shaped like an F or a modern-day gamma with an extra stem, Digamma represented the “w” sound. Its use was widespread in early dialects ...

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The Suda, the massive tome written by a Byzantine scholar around the year 1100, was one of the world's first encyclopedias ...