Discover Syria's 2400 BCE alphabet, the oldest known alphabetic writing, reshaping the history of the alphabet's origins.

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

For centuries, the world believed the ancient Egyptians pioneered the alphabet. Now, a groundbreaking discovery has pushed ...

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 ...

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

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.

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

In Syria, archaeologists have discovered what may be the oldest evidence of alphabetic writing - abstract characters carved ...