and many populations around the Middle East were likely familiar with the Egyptian writing system. “It’s not that surprising,” she says, “knowing how far and wide these things traveled.” ...

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 ...

Four small, clay tablets, unearthed in 2004, are finally gaining attention as possibly the first evidence of an alphabet, but ...

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 ...