A finger-sized clay cylinder from a tomb in northern Syria appears to be the oldest example of writing using an alphabet ...
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Archaeologists Say These Mysterious Markings Could Be the World's Oldest Known Alphabetic WritingA few decades ago, researchers discovered four small clay cylinders marked with strange symbols at an ancient tomb in Syria.
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Although far from the oldest writing we have found, these cylinders are 500 years older than any previously known example of alphabetic script, if that is indeed what they carry.
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