Most European languages that use the Latin source alphabet, Barrett notes, “have the W only because they borrowed English words like whiskey. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have it.

A Japanese government panel has made a draft recommendation to change the method for expressing Japanese words in the Roman alphabet, which has not been updated in about 70 years.

London researchers recently reconstructed large Roman plaster collection, revealing vibrant frescoes hidden for 1,800 years ...

Tracing the Evolution of an Ancient Script The Greek alphabet is one of the most enduring and influential writing systems in human history. From its origins in the 8th century BCE, it laid the ...

Experts in London have spent three months piecing together the shattered remains of Roman artworks, revealing luxurious ...

Its clean lines suggest it wasn’t just a scribble, but the work of a confident, literate hand. It is the only known example ...

Scattered in pieces, the city's largest area of painted Roman plaster was found amid the rubble, dating back at least 1,800 ...

Archaeologists have assembled the “world’s most difficult jigsaw puzzle” to reveal huge frescoes that once adorned a luxury villa in Roman London.

A “jigsaw” of 2,000 year old fragments have been pieced together by archaeologists to reveal a remarkable Roman wall painting ...

Thousands of newly discovered fragments, which once adorned a high-status Roman building, offer an unprecedented glimpse into ...