Archaeologists discovered a basalt tablet about the size of a piece of paper bearing 60 unknown script characters expertly ...

The team has been involved in a 16-year archaeological excavation at Tell Umm-el Marra, one of the first medium-sized ancient urban centres known to ... “Previously, scholars thought the alphabet was ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Long before the “A, B, C Song” — built upon the Latin alphabet — and the alphas, betas and gammas of Ancient Greek ... etched with what appear to be letters, archaeologists said.

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 ...

The team has been involved in a 16-year archaeological excavation at Tell Umm-el Marra, one of the first medium-sized ancient urban ... scholars thought the alphabet was invented in or around ...

The world’s oldest alphabetic writing on clay cylinders unearthed in Syria. Credit: Egisto Sani / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Archaeologists have uncovered what may be the oldest examples of alphabetic writing in ...

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, ...