(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 ...

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

Found in western Syria’s Umm el-Marra region in 2004 alongside some skeletons ... it does indicate positive connotations on ...

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 ...

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