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

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

Archaeologists made a stunning discovery of the world's oldest known alphabetic writing etched on the finger-length clay ...

(Web Desk) - The oldest known alphabetic writing has been found etched onto finger-length clay cylinders unearthed from a tomb in Syria. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University in the US dated the ...

Some military experts are whispering three words none of us thought we would ever hear in our lifetimes: World War III. Here ...

Giraffes may be officially declared endangered, with habitat loss and poaching shrinking their numbers. New U.S. protections ...

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their ...

Although humans had developed writing before alphabets, these early forms of writing were mostly pictorial in nature.

Lebanon's Hezbollah movement fired heavy rocket barrages at Israel on Sunday, with Israeli media reporting that a building had been hit near Tel Aviv, after a powerful Israeli airstrike killed at ...