Four small, clay tablets, unearthed in 2004, are finally gaining attention as possibly the first evidence of an alphabet, but ...

Dating back to approximately 2400 BCE, this discovery predates previously identified alphabetic scripts by about 500 years, ...

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

While humans have been making their mark on the surfaces of this Earth for at least tens of thousands of years, it's ...