How to write the Ancient Greek alphabet. Part 3 of this series teaches you to write the Uncial variants of uppercase Greek letters. Scribes began to use these letter forms early in the Christian era, and the script is often associated...

How to write the Ancient Greek alphabet. Part 2 of this series teaches you to write the minuscule (lowercase) letter variants. This Greek script became more and more common in later ancient times and the middle ages. Printed Ancient...

How to write the Ancient Greek alphabet. Part 1 of this series teaches you to write the majuscule (uppercase) variants, the oldest forms of the Greek letters. This Greek script was used on ancient monuments and in older texts. Visit my...

How to write the Ancient Greek alphabet. Part 4 of this series teaches you to write in the Byzantine minuscule hand. This version of lowercase Greek handwriting became increasingly prominent in the Middle Ages. Stylized forms emerged...

Have you ever wondered where the letters we use every day come from? In this video, we’ll take a journey through time to explore the fascinating history of the alphabet! From ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics to the Phoenician alphabet, and...

Evolution of the Alphabet | Earliest Forms to Modern Latin Script

Learn to write the cursive minuscule hand used for Medieval Greek. Letters of the alphabet appear in various forms. Earliest forms (generally 800-1200) appear on the left, later forms (roughly 1600-1800) on the right. See my "Learn to...

μηδὲν ἄγαν. Nothing in excess. (Or, perhaps, "Moderation in all things.") γνῶθι σεαυτόν. Know yourself. ("Know thyself.") ἐγγύα πάρα δ' ἄτη. A pledge is near to ruin. ("Make a pledge, and mischief is nigh.") These three Greek sayings...

My animation takes you through the birth and evolution of writing. Watch the story of the world's scripts unfold, from the early cave days to modern writing systems. But only if you choose to take Thoth's Pill... This animated...

Your vowels were invented in Greece, giving birth to the first "true" alphabet. Watch as your new toga-clad friend turns your consonant abjad into a consonant-vowel alphabet. It's such a useful mapping of letters to sounds that neighbor...

Preschool Prep - Alphabet and Languages from A-Z V1-0008

This video highlights the significance of the Greek language, spoken in Greece and Cyprus, with a rich history dating back over 3000 years. It emphasizes the extensive...

Writing Systems of the World | Abjads, Alphabets, Abugidas, Syllabaries & Logosyllabaries

Quantum physicist Artur Ekert (Oxford and NUS) highlights the importance of having an alphabet for encoding written messages.

In the old Greek cursive hand of the Middle Ages, letters join to form ligatures. Here are the types of regular ligatures you will find in medieval & early modern manuscripts: - two letters join with a horizontal stroke - two letters...

Semitic languages like Hebrew and Arabic evolved a unique way to write vowels... with consonants! See how in this episode of Thoth's Pill: an Animated History of Writing. You're back in the ancient Middle East, where seemingly everyone's...

Some more educational etymologies and information about the trivium and quadrivium. Thank you to all our Patreon supporters! Please check out our Patreon='https://www.credits.ImageseEndlesWebsitetPodcast_orank' rel='nofollow'>Patreon...

¿Cuál es el origen de las letras que usamos todos los días? ¿Hau diferentes tipos de alfabetos?

The history of writing has evolved over time. It began with symbols, numbers, and pictograms in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt....

The ancient alphabet was a single scratchy list of letters. So where did BIG UPPERCASE and little lowercase forms of our alphabet come from? Take a look at the history of our strange writing system and wonder... Who came first? Was it...

This live-action video program is about the word Hieroglyphics. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word Hieroglyphics through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and...