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

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

Year-Old Finger-Length Clay Cylinders Etched With Oldest Known Alphabet Discovered in Ancient Syrian City Researchers believe ...

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

At an archaeological excavation site in western Syria, Schwartz unearthed a “finger-length” clay cylinder with etched letters ...

Discover Syria's 2400 BCE alphabet, the oldest known alphabetic writing, reshaping the history of the alphabet's origins.

Archaeological discoveries indicate that alphabetic writing dates back 500 years earlier than previously believed. What ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University discovered evidence of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history. The writing ...