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

Although far from the oldest writing we have found, these cylinders are 500 years older than any previously known example of alphabetic script, if that is indeed what they carry.

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Researchers have found a 4,400-year-old alphabet in a tomb in the Middle Eastern nation of Syria that could help archaeologists begin to decipher ancient texts and offer a new unde ...

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

"Previously, scholars thought the alphabet was invented in or around Egypt sometime after 1900 BCE," Schwartz said. "But our artifacts are older and from a different area on the map, suggesting ...

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