Tag: alphabets

A jar of extra Virgil olive oil, please: Archaeologists discover Virgil...

According to a paper recently published int he Journal of Roman Archaeology, it’s likely the first literary quotation to have been carved into an amphora.

The trials and tribulations of digitizing Urdu, the 10th most spoken...

Because Nastalīq has been so challenging to adapt to a digital format, many Urdu speakers have taken to using Naskh, which is written along straight horizontal lines, or even using a non-standardized form of the language that uses Latin script.