4 Secret Tablets in a Tomb May Be the First Evidence of the World's Oldest Alphabet
Scholars know that the first writing systems, Mesopotamia’s cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphics, developed more than 5,000 ...
Archaeology breakthrough as scientists may have pinpointed the 'origin of writing'
Recent research has led to new conclusions about the origin of writing with important new understanding on human cognitive ...
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Ancient Origins of Writing Traced to Mysterious 6,000-Year-Old Symbols
While humans have been making their mark on the surfaces of this Earth for at least tens of thousands of years, it's ...
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Ancient Stone Cylinders Reveal Clues To The Oldest Writing System In The World
One of the earliest writing systems in the world may have been influenced by symbols engraved on ancient “cylinder seals.” ...
World's Oldest Alphabet Writings Discovered In Syria, Archaeologists Claim
Long before alphabets came into existence, human civilisations used different means to communicate such as images and ...
Ancient Clay Cylinders Reveal What May Be World's Oldest Alphabetic Writing
The early writing appears to date to around 2400 B.C.—preceding the previous most bygone examples by roughly 500 years.
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World’s Oldest Alphabet Found on an Ancient Clay Gift Tag
A finger-sized clay cylinder from a tomb in northern Syria appears to be the oldest example of writing using an alphabet ...
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Clay Cylinders May Rewrite The Timeline On The Origins Of The Alphabet
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.
Ancient writing — using possibly ‘oldest known alphabet’ — unearthed in Syria. See it
At an archaeological excavation site in western Syria, Schwartz unearthed a “finger-length” clay cylinder with etched ...