The alphabet song won't help you in the case of this viral riddle Social media’s newest brain game has a ton of people stumped. So stumped, in fact, that the riddle has gone viral. People are ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

G’s that look like I’s, F’s that sound like “Waw,” and Q’s that look like monkeys — man, was our alphabet a mess. That’s because many of our letters began as Egyptian hieroglyph symbols 4,000 years ...

Believe it or not, the capital A hasn’t always looked the way it does now. Ancient Egyptians wrote the letter upside down, creating a symbol that resembled a steer with horns. Learn the surprising ...

A sequence of letters belonging to an ancient alphabet has been discovered in a most unusual way — by someone scrolling through social media. The inscription, on a slate slab unearthed in Spain, is ...

It’s a question that has long puzzled scholars and laymen alike: Which letter of the alphabet is coolest, and which is the lamest? Today, here at Paste, we’re finally answering the question of ...

The coolest letter in the alphabet: When we learn the letters of the English alphabet, we just remember them in order, from A to Z. But have you ever thought about whether some letters are just ...