A finger-sized clay cylinder from a tomb in northern Syria appears to be the oldest example of writing using an alphabet rather than hieroglyphs or cuneiform ...
Researchers have discovered evidence of what they say is the world’s oldest alphabet, believed to have existed in the Middle East hundreds ... invented in or around Egypt sometime after 1900 ...
The early human discovery dating back to 2400 BC was made by analyzing clay fragments at a 16-year-long archaeological dig in ...
Archaeologists have uncovered the oldest alphabetic writing ever recorded from a tomb in Syria. Etched onto finger-length ...
Researchers have found a 4,400-year-old alphabet in a tomb in the Middle Eastern nation of Syria that could help archaeologists begin to decipher ancient texts and offer a new unde ...