“It changes the entire narrative of how the alphabet was introduced,” Professor Schwartz was quoted by Scientific American.

The dig site contained many ancient tombs dating back to the Early Bronze Age from 3500-2000 BC, with one containing ...

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

The oldest known alphabetic writing has been found etched onto finger-length clay cylinders unearthed from a tomb in Syria.

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

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

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

Archaeologists have found the oldest alphabetic writing of the world in a tomb in northern Syria.According to Independent, ...

Long before the “A, B, C Song” — built upon the Latin alphabet — and the alphas, betas and gammas of Ancient Greek, cultures around the world were communicating with one another. The Sumerians of ...

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

Oldest known alphabet unearthed in ancient Syrian city by Johns Hopkins University Clay objects roughly the size of fingers were discovered during a dig at the ancient city of Umm el-Marra.