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

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.

Found etched into clay cylinders in Syria, the strange symbols date to around 2400 B.C.E.—500 years before other known ...

Although far from the oldest writing we have found, these cylinders are 500 years older than any previously known example of alphabetic script, if that is indeed what they carry.

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

A 4,400-year-old discovery in Syria may rewrite history. Clay cylinders with symbols, predating Egyptian scripts, suggest the alphabet's true birthplace was Tell Umm-el Marra.

In J R R Tolkien’s famous fantasy novel, The Lord of the Rings, there is an excerpt from a poem that is linked to the vivid ...

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