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

Ancient Egyptians wrote the letter upside down, creating a symbol that resembled a steer with horns. Learn the surprising ...

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

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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.

Found etched into clay cylinders in Syria, the strange symbols date to around 2400 B.C.E.—500 years before other known ...

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

A team of archaeologists from Johns Hopkins University, led by Professor Glenn Schwartz, has discovered small clay cylinders ...

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

Using carbon-14 dating techniques, researchers confirmed the ages of the tombs, the artifacts, and the writing. "Previously, scholars thought the alphabet was invented in or around Egypt sometime ...