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.

A new discovery of the world's oldest known alphabetic writing was made at Tell Umm-el Marra, an urban site in Syria that can ...

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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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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.

Researchers have discovered evidence of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history. The writing was etched onto clay cylinders discovered during a dig at an ancient Syrian city.

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