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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Archaeologists have uncovered the oldest alphabet in human history ... led a 16-year excavation at Tell Umm-el Marra in western Syria. Tombs dating back to the Early Bronze Age contain skeletons ...

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

This discovery, dated to around 2400 BCE, predates previously known alphabetic scripts by approximately 500 years, ...