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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.

New evidence of the world's oldest alphabet, carved onto finger-length clay cylinders, outdates other scripts by 500 years.

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