I saw this as a joke somewhere, but it got me wondering what the answer was. Why is the alphabet in that order? Who decided A was the first letter, B was the second, and so on? –Eric S., via e-mail ...

Can you see it? Some of the Etruscan letters found on a sandstone slab in the Mugello Valley Mugello Valley Project We know a lot about the ancient Romans—from their legal system to how they liked to ...