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

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

A new discovery of the world's oldest known alphabetic writing was made at Tell Umm-el Marra, an urban site in Syria that can ...

Four clay cylinders inscribed with what might be the oldest known evidence of alphabetic writing are 500 years older than other early alphabets, according to new research.

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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.

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.

This discovery, dated to around 2400 BCE, predates previously known alphabetic scripts by approximately 500 years, ...