In 1922, a British archaeologist named Herbert Weld Blundell was excavating the ruins of Larsa, an ancient city in what is now southern Iraq. Digging through the dust of Mesopotamia, his team ...

Nike and the Norwegian Football Federation commissioned a new font called Taakeferd. When Norway’s national soccer team first ...

Content creator RobWords explains the history behind the hashtag or pound sign, along with other common symbols that have ...

Protected by a sealed leather pouch, this 10-page notebook still contains legible Latin inscriptions and intact wax.

In this travel guide to Plovdiv, discover Roman sites, Bulgarian Revival houses and the best restaurants and bars.View on euronews ...

How do you justify Arabic text? It’s a simple question, but—as cataloged in a lengthy interactive post on the blog La Vita ...

L” is the letter that starts so many positive words, including “love” and “light.” Which is why it wouldn't surprise us if you are keen on naming your little boy something that starts with the 12th ...

An important figure in the story pertaining to the origin of the Latin alphabet is Evander of Pallantium. According to Greek and Roman mythology, one of the founding figures in Rome’s history was a ...

This repository contains fast integer versions of trained models for the Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine. These models only work with the LSTM OCR engine of Tesseract 4 and 5. those for a single ...

Greek inscription inside Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Credit: Flickr / George Terezakis CC BY 2.0 The Latin alphabet is undoubtedly the world’s most recognizable form of written language, whose ...

Traces of Ogham can still be found all across Ireland. The ancient script of Ogham, sometimes known now as the 'Celtic Tree Alphabet,' originally contained 20 letters grouped into four groups of five.

The Chilean capital Santiago awoke on Wednesday to a mixture of celebration and tension. As the city prepared for the inauguration of its centre-right president, the new government’s first crisis was ...