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 ...

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

For centuries, the world believed the ancient Egyptians pioneered the alphabet. Now, a groundbreaking discovery has pushed ...

Credit: Glenn Schwartz/ Johns Hopkins University. Archaeologists have uncovered what could be the oldest alphabet in human ...

Archaeological discoveries indicate that alphabetic writing dates back 500 years earlier than previously believed. What ...

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.

The text was inscribed on finger-length clay cylinders buried in a tomb at Tell Umm-el Marra which is thought to have been ...

The early writing appears to date to around 2400 B.C.—preceding the previous most bygone examples by roughly 500 years.

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

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.