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 ...
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University discovered evidence of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history. The writing ...
“It’s an alphabet. It’s easy-peasy. I’m used to much tougher things.” “The morphology of the letters on the cylinder seals ...
At an archaeological excavation site in western Syria, Schwartz unearthed a “finger-length” clay cylinder with etched letters ...
New evidence of the world's oldest alphabet, carved onto finger-length clay cylinders, outdates other scripts by 500 years.
A few decades ago, researchers discovered four small clay cylinders marked with strange symbols at an ancient tomb in Syria.
BCE clay cylinders with oldest known alphabetic writing were uncovered in Syria, challenging the origins of the alphabet.
Hangul is an alphabet. That is, each letter corresponds to what linguists refer to as a phoneme—essentially just an individual sound (a vowel or consonant). This differs from other writing systems, ...