Have you ever wondered how some languages work without an alphabet? While most of us read using letters like A to Z, Chinese and Japanese follow a completely different system. Instead of spelling ...

Coptic isn’t just a language—it’s the last living link to ancient Egypt. This is the story of how Greek letters, Christian faith, and centuries of tradition kept it alive Over 2.5 million people sign ...

CAIRO — Far from Egypt’s busy capital, minority communities are struggling to preserve and protect their unique culture and languages from extinction. With a population of over 118 million, Egypt is ...

While beheadings grab headlines, poverty and cultural friction push emigration to the West—where the welcome is not always what Copts expect. Persecution waned after Constantine declared Christianity ...

Courtney Gibbons is affiliated with the Association for Women in Mathematics and the American Mathematical Society. You might remember learning about the quadratic formula to figure out the solutions ...

Close to 1,000,000 Coptic Christians of Egypt, who believe themselves to be the world’s oldest Christian sect, celebrated the election of a new pope last week. The man who will also be looked to for ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State Assistant Professor Candace Lukasik has published her first book “Martyrs and Migrants: Coptic Christians and the Persecution Politics of U.S. Empire” (NYU Press).

A study is the first-of-its-kind to recognize American Sign Language (ASL) alphabet gestures using computer vision. Researchers developed a custom dataset of 29,820 static images of ASL hand gestures.

Researchers may have deciphered the oldest known scrap of alphabetic writing yet discovered, and it may be a nearly 4,500-year-old gift tag. A clay cylinder found in a tomb holding six skeletons in ...