The accepted story is that the first alphabet developed in the Sinai Peninsula around 1,900 B.C., an innovation on Egyptian ...

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The alphabetic writing system was identified on finger-length clay cylinders excavated from a tomb in an ancient Syrian city known as Tell Umm-el Marra. The artifacts came to light during a 16 ...

However, writing might be more fairly considered ... 3000 BCE shows how stones engraved with symbols were rolled onto clay tablets to leave stamped impressions. This cylinder provides the first ...

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Small clay cylinders from an ancient Syrian tomb have letters etched into them. The 2400-year-old tablets are the oldest ...

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