“The shapes of the letters in the earliest alphabet (which we often call ‘Early Alphabetic’ or ‘Canaanite’ or ‘Proto-Sinaitic’) hail from Egyptian models… the inventors of the ...

In a landmark discovery, a team of Israeli archaeologists have decoded the oldest known sentence in the ancient language ... evidence for the use of the alphabet some 3,700 years ago.

The ancient Egyptians invented one of the earliest known writing systems used from around 3000 BC. The symbols they used were called hieroglyphs, which comes from a Greek word meaning ...

GV is Alphabet's early-stage venture arm. Formerly known as Google Ventures, GV has more than $4.5 billion under management and has invested in more than 400 companies, including Uber, Lime ...