A finger-sized clay cylinder from a tomb in northern Syria appears to be the oldest example of writing using an alphabet ...
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Archaeologists Say These Mysterious Markings Could Be the World’s Oldest Known Alphabetic WritingFound etched into clay cylinders in Syria, the strange symbols date to around 2400 B.C.E.—500 years before other known ...
Discover Syria's 2400 BCE alphabet, the oldest known alphabetic writing, reshaping the history of the alphabet's origins.
The early writing appears to date to around 2400 B.C.—preceding the previous most bygone examples by roughly 500 years.
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Archaeologists Uncover Oldest Known Alphabetic WritingDating back to approximately 2400 BCE, this discovery predates previously identified alphabetic scripts by about 500 years, ...
Archaeological discoveries indicate that alphabetic writing dates back 500 years earlier than previously believed. What ...
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.
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