In 1928 French archaeologist Maurice Dunand began excavating the ancient coastal city of Byblos, located in what is now Lebanon. Byblos was an important Phoenician city whose origin dates back to ...
As almost everyone knows, sequoia is the name given to a giant tree typical of California’s Sierra Nevada that can exceed one hundred meters in height and ten meters in diameter. However, one of its ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. As early as 1809, Sequoyah (ca. 1775–1843) began working on a system for writing the Cherokee language. In 1825 the Cherokee Nation officially ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
Sequoyah invents the Cherokee syllabary, and how it is still used today. When Europeans settled in the new world, many Indians noticed the newcomers could communicate through writing. Most believed it ...
“DOCTRINA Christiana,” printed by the Dominicans in 1593, contains the ancient Philippine alphabet. At left, a sample of the baybayin syllabary from an ancient legal document at the UST Archives. The ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. As early as 1809, Sequoyah (ca. 1775–1843) began working on a system for writing the Cherokee language. In 1825 the Cherokee Nation officially ...