This number system used Old Slavonic Cyrillic characters in alphabetical order. A special symbol - a wavy line called a titlo - was used to distinguish the letter from the numeral.

The Roman numerals were adopted to clarify any confusion that may occur because the NFL championship game — the Super Bowl — is played in the year following a chronologically recorded season.

An inscription on an 1,100-year-old breastplate found in a ruined fortress in Bulgaria may contain one of the earliest known examples of Cyrillic text, researchers claim.

Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev on Friday announced the country's alphabet will gradually switch from Cyrillic to Latin script. Kazakh, a Turkic language, currently uses a modified ...