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A Johns Hopkins archaeologist recycles a 20-year-old hypothesis that small clay cylinders found in an ancient tomb reset the ...

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“It changes the entire narrative of how the alphabet was introduced,” Schwartz says. Small holes drilled into the cylinders could have been used to string them on thread. As such, the clay ...

Clay objects roughly the size of fingers were discovered during a dig at the ancient city of Umm el-Marra. The engraved symbols may be part of the earliest known ...

Researchers have discovered evidence of what they say is the world’s oldest alphabet, believed to have ... the Phonecians — from whom the English word “phonics” derives — are credited ...

The Justice Department is asking for Alphabet to sell the Chrome web browser. The demand is part of a larger antitrust case. A decision on the matter is expected in 2025. The news was the latest ...

"Previously, scholars thought the alphabet was invented in or around Egypt sometime after 1900 BCE," Schwartz said. "But our artifacts are older and from a different area on the map, suggesting the ...

This new finding disrupts how archaeologists understand where the alphabet originated, and how it was shared across civilizations, societies, and cultures, leaving anthropologists with new questions ...

"Previously, scholars thought the alphabet was invented in or around Egypt sometime after 1900 BCE," Schwartz said. "But our artifacts are older and from a different area on the map, suggesting ...