A new bronze statue, 'Grounded in the Stars', is unveiled in Times Square. Thomas J. Price, a British artist, created the statue. It depicts a Black woman. The statue aims to challenge traditional ...

An inscription written in the Proto-Sinaitic Script, the direct precursor to the Phoenician consonantal alphabet. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, public domain To understand why the Phoenician script was ...

The writing system is derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet and is the earliest known alphabetic script to systematically write vowels as well as consonants. In Archaic and early Classical ...

It was previously believed that the Levantine DNA of the Phoenicians spread as far as their famous alphabet, which influenced quite a few languages. DNA analysis of individuals buried in what used ...

The long-awaited statue of South Carolina women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley was unveiled Wednesday afternoon near downtown Columbia. The statue, which is 14 feet tall, made of bronze and ...

Wes Anderson’s latest movie is almost upon us. The film will first have a limited release in theaters May 30 before expanding to a wide release June 6. The cast includes new and longtime ...

A statue of Dawn Staley will officially be unveiled Wednesday afternoon, but it won’t be located at its originally planned location. The statue of Staley will stand at the intersection of Senate ...

Phoenician city-states shared languages—recorded with an alphabet that was a precursor to Greek and Latin letters—religious practices and maritime trading economies. Many researchers have ...

Claims of purportedly authentic photos depicting a statue of a giant cheeseburger, specifically the popular McDonald's menu item the Quarter Pounder with Cheese, have been shared online for years.

Google parent Alphabet Inc. reported first-quarter revenue and profit that exceeded analysts’ expectations, buoyed by continued strength in its search advertising business. First-quarter sales ...

The Phoenicians developed innovations such as the first alphabet, from which many present-day writing systems derive, and shared languages recorded with this alphabet that was a precursor to Greek ...