The Ancient Egyptians developed hieroglyphics, and Chinese characters built the written language piece by piece. Alphabetic language, or written language made of individual letters, is a newer ...

It is a three-foot high stone containing hieroglyphs, everyday ancient Egyptian language and a Greek translation ... The phonetic hieroglyph alphabet is the closest version to our modern ...

As president of Endangered Alphabets, which catalogues the world’s endangered scripts in an online atlas, Brookes became interested in the world’s languages when he began carving them into wood.