The discovery of clay cylinders in Syria could entirely reshape the history of alphabetic writing, suggesting it may date ...

What has been described as the world's oldest alphabet, inscribed on a series of inscriptions on clay fragments - dating back ...

What appears to be evidence of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history is etched onto finger-length, clay cylinders ...

Credit: Glenn Schwartz, Johns Hopkins University A team of Johns Hopkins University researchers has uncovered evidence of ...

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

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

The discovery challenges what we know about where and when alphabets were invented. The groundbreaking find was made by a ...

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

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

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