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Archaeological discoveries indicate that alphabetic writing dates back 500 years earlier than previously believed. What ...

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

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

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

The early human discovery dating back to 2400 BC was made by analyzing clay fragments at a 16-year-long archaeological dig in Syria.

The early writing appears to date to around 2400 B.C.—preceding the previous most bygone examples by roughly 500 years.

The ancient writing was found on several clay cylinders ... how it was previously believed that the alphabet was created in Egypt after 1900 BCE. But, the new find in Syria which is older and ...