MOMA pays tribute to a restlessly innovative artist whose life’s work was to give abstraction soul.

In the mid-1800s, the invention of the Braille system radically changed the lives of millions of visually impaired people around the world — but how much do you know about the person who created it?

The Latin alphabet is the most recognizable form of written language, whose history goes back to the eras of ancient Greek ...

The Greek alphabet, traditionally believed to have emerged in the eighth century BC, is now undergoing reevaluation thanks to groundbreaking research at Leiden University. The writing system is ...

In 1948, a young physicist made a groundbreaking discovery about the origins of the universe—only to have his moment eclipsed ...

Enhanced Games are just around the corner, and Australian former Olympic swimmer James Magnussen looks more than ready and an ...

The tongue, an offshoot of Syrian Arabic that has absorbed some Greek, has been passed from ... there was no written script, or even an alphabet, since parents transmitted it to children in ...

Ash dangled precariously from Iosif Skordis’ cigarette as he reminisced with fellow villagers in a language on the edge of ...

The early Greek alphabet was painted on the body of an Attic black-figure cup. Credit: flickr / Dan Diffendale CC BY-SA 2.0 The alphabet was one of the most important and influential things created in ...

An undersea earthquake has struck off the Greek island of Crete and was felt across the Aegean Sea but no injuries or significant damage were immediately reported.

At a calligraphy class in Hanoi, Hoang Thi Thanh Huyen slides her brush across the page to form the letters and tonal marks ...

Every year on 24 May, Bulgaria marks one of its most cherished national holidays - The Day of the Holy Brothers Cyril and Methodius, of the Bulgarian Alphabet, Education and Culture, and of Slavic ...