THE ALPHABET is easy to take for granted. Children memorise it before they know why it matters. Then it’s off to reading, and learning the sounds of the letters and how they combine. After that, many ...

Oscar Isaac had the time of his life playing one of literature’s most tortured souls. In Guillermo del Toro’s reimagining of “Frankenstein,” Isaac takes on the role of Victor Frankenstein, describing ...

The Armenian alphabet is the script developed for the writing of the Armenian language. This alphabetic writing system was developed during the 5th century AD and is still in use today. The Armenian ...

Runic script was developed in Scandinavia between the 2nd and 8th centuries AD. It was originally used for short inscriptions. After the Viking Age, this famous form of writing was altered to compete ...

Discover the curious history behind this wacky and wonderful letter of the alphabet Back when you first learned the alphabet, you probably didn’t realize that one of those letters was not like the ...

At a calligraphy class in Hanoi, Hoang Thi Thanh Huyen slides her brush across the page to form the letters and tonal marks of Vietnam's unique modern script, in part a legacy of French colonial rule.

An important figure in the story pertaining to the origin of the Latin alphabet is Evander of Pallantium. According to Greek and Roman mythology, one of the founding figures in Rome’s history was a ...