Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The Phoenician alphabet now brings a new dimension of interest to this year's ...

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 to ...

We tend to take it for granted, but the alphabet was a human invention. Without it, we wouldn’t read books and newspapers or write shopping lists and e-mails. We would have to rely on recitations and ...

Most Y chromosomes have a T at a particular position along the chromosome (known as 13,479,028 or M172), but some have a G at this position. Lineages spread by the Phoenicians are enriched for the G.

The alphabet was invented by Semites, not by Phoenicians, as scholars have thought. This is the conclusion reached by Professor Martin Sprengling of the University of Chicago, who has deciphered the ...

The Tel Dan Stele on display at the Jewish Museum in New York.Courtesy of the Jewish Museum. Photo by Christine Butler (New York Jewish Week) — Last year, New York City’s Jewish Museum imported a new ...