Archaeologists have found the oldest alphabetic writing of the world in a tomb in northern Syria.According to Independent, ...

In the early 2000s, archaeologists excavating a tomb at Tell Umm-el Marra, a site 35 miles east of Aleppo, Syria, discovered ...

Archaeological discoveries indicate that alphabetic writing dates back 500 years earlier than previously believed. What ...

A few decades ago, researchers discovered four small clay cylinders marked with strange symbols at an ancient tomb in Syria.

Four clay cylinders inscribed with what might be the oldest known evidence of alphabetic writing are 500 years older than other early alphabets, according to new research.

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

A long-awaited discovery has been made. After 140 years, an inscription on an ancient Turkish monument has finally been decoded.

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

In a remarkable archaeological breakthrough, researchers from Johns Hopkins University have uncovered what appears to be the ...

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.

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.