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

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

Researchers have discovered evidence of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history. The writing was etched onto clay cylinders discovered during a dig at an ancient Syrian city.

Archaeologists say they have uncovered evidence of what may be the world's oldest known alphabet. The alphabetic writing ...

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.

The technique has confirmed the age of the tombs, artifacts, and writing, which predates other alphabetic scripts by half a century. "Previously, scientists believed that the alphabet was invented in ...

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 human discovery dating back to 2400 BC was made by analyzing clay fragments at a 16-year-long archaeological dig in ...

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

Researchers have found a 4,400-year-old alphabet in a tomb in the Middle Eastern nation of Syria that could help ...

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

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