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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 alphabet. Credit: Glenn Schwartz ...

“It changes the entire narrative of how the alphabet was introduced,” Professor Schwartz was quoted by Scientific American. The writing is on clay cylinders, each of which is about the thickness of a ...

for example—these did not make use of an alphabet. Cuneiform, considered to be the oldest known writing system, was developed by the Sumerians of Mesopotamia (an ancient region centered on ...

Schwartz discovered the finger-sized cylinder, along with three others bearing similar etchings, in a tomb at Tell Umm el-Marra, an ancient city ... narrative of how the alphabet was introduced ...

However, writing might be more fairly considered to be two major advances: pictograms like hieroglyphics, followed by the development of the alphabet ... Umm-el Marra, an ancient city in western ...

This challenges the notion that the Ancient Egyptians created the first alphabet. In 2400 BC, they had developed hieratic script, a cursive form of hieroglyphic signs. Schwartz said: "Previously ...

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Symbols on finger-sized clay objects discovered during dig at ancient city of Umm el-Marra could be earliest known alphabet (Glenn Schwartz, Johns Hopkins University) This form of writing may have ...