Researchers may have deciphered the oldest known scrap of alphabetic writing yet discovered ... in a tomb at Tell Umm el-Marra, an ancient city that sits between modern-day Aleppo and the ...

The oldest known alphabetic writing has been found etched onto finger ... one of the first medium-sized ancient urban centres known to have popped up in western Syria. At this site, archaeologists ...

What appears to be evidence of some of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history is etched onto finger-length, clay cylinders excavated from a tomb in Syria by a team of Johns Hopkins University ...

The oldest known alphabetic writing has been found etched onto finger-length clay cylinders unearthed ... The team has been involved in a 16-year archaeological excavation at Tell Umm-el Marra, one of ...