The discovery of clay cylinders in Syria could completely change the history of alphabetic writing. Scientists suggest that ...

Discover Syria's 2400 BCE alphabet, the oldest known alphabetic writing, reshaping the history of the alphabet's origins.

Small clay cylinders from an ancient Syrian tomb have letters etched into them. The 2400-year-old tablets are the oldest ...

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

What appears to be evidence of some of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history is etched onto finger-length, clay ...

The discovery of clay cylinders in Syria could entirely reshape the history of alphabetic writing, suggesting it may date ...

“But our artifacts are older and from a different area on the map, suggesting the alphabet may have an entirely different ...

BCE clay cylinders with oldest known alphabetic writing were uncovered in Syria, challenging the origins of the alphabet.

A finger-sized clay cylinder from a tomb in northern Syria appears to be the oldest example of writing using an alphabet ...

The oldest known alphabetic writing has been found etched onto finger-length clay cylinders unearthed from a tomb in Syria.

The findings suggest that the development of writing was more geographically diverse and occurred earlier than previously ...

Long before alphabets came into existence, human civilisations used different means to communicate such as images and ...