A finger-sized clay cylinder from a tomb in northern Syria appears to be the oldest example of writing using an alphabet rather than hieroglyphs or cuneiform ...

The writing on these finger-length cylinders suggests that early civilisations were experimenting with new forms of ...

The writing, which is dated to around 2400 BCE, precedes other known alphabetic scripts by roughly 500 years, upending what ...

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

AN awe-inspiring discovery of the oldest known alphabet has been found in a tomb by a group of archaeologists. The ancient ...

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

In Syria, archaeologists have discovered what may be the oldest evidence of alphabetic writing - abstract characters carved ...

Researchers suspect the clay writing was used as a label. jhu Just south of Syria in modern-day Lebanon around the 11th ...

Long before the “A, B, C Song” — built upon the Latin alphabet — and the alphas, betas and gammas of Ancient Greek, cultures around the world were communicating with one another. The Sumerians of ...

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

BCE clay cylinders with oldest known alphabetic writing were uncovered in Syria, challenging the origins of the alphabet.

“Scholars long believed the alphabet originated in Egypt around 1900 BC,” says Professor Schwartz. This find suggests an ...