The first true alphabet was an invention of the Greek world, revolutionizing writing, literacy, and shaping foundations of ...

One of the most important shifts in history was the spread of Christianity by the Greeks from the Byzantine Empire into ...

Our Serbian guide Zoran is a jovial fellow and as we rumble through the streets of Belgrade in our minibus he regales us with ...

The son of an African American father and a Russian mother, he starred at age 3 in a propaganda film mythologizing Soviet ...

Beside my grandparents’ apartment door stands a potted plant with a note to fellow building occupants, handwritten in ...

In their work St. Cyril had to develop an alphabet for the Old Slavonic language. (It became the precursor of the Russian "cyrillic" alphabet.) In 885 St. Methodius translated the entire Bible ...

Heading to Japan? Or maybe Greece? What about Thailand? If that's the case, you need to know how to search for places using another alphabet.

But the most famous of these birch bark writings come from a single prolific artist who lived there in the 13th century. He ...

Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL) stock could drop between 15% and 25% if US District Judge Amit Mehta orders Google to sell off its Chrome browser, Barclays analysts have said. In August, Google lost a ...