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 ...

With so many ancient texts around the world, you might wonder which alphabet was the first to be developed. In other words, ...

These Canaanite city-states flourished, and a bustling sea trade spread their alphabet along with their wares. Variations of the alphabet—now known as Phoenician, from the Greek word for the ...

The Phoenicians developed their ancient civilization with profits from the lucrative maritime trade of the Mediterranean.