A finger-sized clay cylinder from a tomb in northern Syria appears to be the oldest example of writing using an alphabet ...
AN awe-inspiring discovery of the oldest known alphabet has been found in a tomb by a group of archaeologists. The ancient ...
Year-Old Finger-Length Clay Cylinders Etched With Oldest Known Alphabet Discovered in Ancient Syrian City Researchers believe ...
Discover Syria's 2400 BCE alphabet, the oldest known alphabetic writing, reshaping the history of the alphabet's origins.
The discovery of clay cylinders in Syria could completely change the history of alphabetic writing. Scientists suggest that ...
The early writing appears to date to around 2400 B.C.—preceding the previous most bygone examples by roughly 500 years.
Just outside the Syrian city of Aleppo, archaeologists have discovered what may be the oldest example of alphabetic writing ...
The early human discovery dating back to 2400 BC was made by analyzing clay fragments at a 16-year-long archaeological dig in ...
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.
BCE clay cylinders with oldest known alphabetic writing were uncovered in Syria, challenging the origins of the alphabet.