The Petries recognized the signs as an alphabet, though decoding the letters would take another ... for a BBC documentary about the history of writing. In the high-ceilinged Egypt and Sudan ...

the general principle of writing may have come from hieroglyphs, but the concept of an alphabet and the values of the letters themselves were new ideas. Steele is most interested in the Bronze Age ...

The wonders of the wild alphabet, come in many shapes and sizes. Such as the curly caterpillar letters. They start by looping from the top, before curling out the bottom. They really are that simple.

After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters in ...