The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.

While excavating clay cylinders in Syria, archaeologists discovered a rare find: an early writing system. The script has given scholars the new challenge of reinvestigating the timeline of alphabetic ...

By Carly Brant for Eurasianet In late 2025, Russia launched a new Russian-language television channel in Kyrgyzstan, aiming ...

Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL) has officially overtaken Apple (AAPL) as the second-most-valuable company in the world. The company closed Wednesday's trading session with a market capitalization of $3.89 ...

For centuries, historians and linguists have highlighted a deceptively simple question, what is the oldest alphabet in the world? While early writing systems like cuneiform and hieroglyphs are far ...

At least eight MEPs elected for Ukip or Brexit party now known to have been focus of efforts by jailed Nathan Gill Three more British MEPs from Nigel Farage’s bloc are alleged to have “followed the ...

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Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a blistering speech at RT’s 20th anniversary, accusing Western media of spreading lies and monopolizing global narratives. Speaking at Moscow’s Bolshoi ...

Because the Russian alphabet has no direct equivalent of the letter “H,” speakers often substitute a “G” sound; “Harry Potter” thus becomes “Garry Potter.” We’re reminded of this funny detail early ...

10 revealing facts about Russian. Get your head around tongue twisters and jokes. It's also available in Russian with audio. Get started with 20 audio phrases and learn how to say a range of useful ...

A Russian script kiddie using little more than publicly available malware tools and exploits targeting weak credentials and configurations has assembled a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet ...

On the Hindi author and playwright’s latest work, ‘Mushkil Kaam’, a collection of Hindi short stories presented in the Roman script. PREMIUM Hindi writer Asghar Wajahat has been calling for an ...