wmf “Previously, scholars thought the alphabet was invented in or around Egypt sometime after 1900 BC,” said researcher Glenn ...

At an archaeological excavation site in western Syria, Schwartz unearthed a “finger-length” clay cylinder with etched letters ...

The dig site contained many ancient tombs dating back to the Early Bronze Age from 3500-2000 BC, with one containing ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the oldest alphabetic writing ever recorded from a tomb in Syria. Etched onto finger-length ...

What appears to be evidence of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history is etched onto finger-length, clay cylinders ...

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The oldest known alphabetic writing has been found etched onto finger-length clay cylinders unearthed from a tomb in Syria.

"The cylinders were perforated, so I'm imagining a string tethering them to another object to act as a label ... in or around ...

The findings suggest that the development of writing was more geographically diverse and occurred earlier than previously ...

More than 2,000 civilians have been killed in northern Gaza amid a campaign of genocide and ethnic cleansing by Israeli ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland say small cylinders made out of clay have the oldest known ...

What appears to be evidence of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history is etched onto finger-length, clay cylinders excavated from a tomb in ...