The oldest recorded alphabet may be Hebrew. According to a controversial new study by archaeologist and ancient inscription specialist Douglas Petrovich, Israelites in Egypt took 22 ancient ...

Immerse yourself in the wisdom of the Hebrew letters with our engaging video series. Start with “Part 1: The Hebrew Alphabet” to connect with the divine essence of these ancient symbols. Watch ...

Alphabet soup. A new description of Hebrew as the world’s oldest alphabet includes these proposed early Hebrew letters (middle), with corresponding modern Hebrew letters (left) and Egyptian ...

Is Hebrew the world's first alphabet? Israelites in Egypt may have turned hieroglyphs into letters 3,800 years ago. Dr Douglas Petrovich looked at 16 Hebrew letters from Egyptian tablets ...

As part of her capstone project at her Tel Aviv-area college, graphic artist Michal Shomer revamped the Hebrew alphabet — adding a dozen new letters to make the 3,000-year-old language more ...

Petrovich used letters from that text and cobbled together — based on previous identifications of some letters in the ancient alphabet with his own findings — a rendering of Hebrew script that ...

Here, she renders the fifth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, hey, using sumi ink, traditional in Japanese calligraphy and made from the soot of burnt oils. In focusing on a single letter, Wapner echoes ...

G’s that look like I’s, F’s that sound like “Waw,” and Q’s that look like monkeys — man, was our alphabet a mess. That’s because many of our letters began as Egyptian hieroglyph ...

Instead, she started drawing around Hebrew letters, using brightly colored markers to hug the contours of the aleph bet, the Hebrew alphabet, ...