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

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

At an archaeological excavation site in western Syria, Schwartz unearthed a “finger-length” clay cylinder with etched ...

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

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

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

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

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

New evidence of the world's oldest alphabet, carved onto finger-length clay cylinders, outdates other scripts by 500 years.

The oldest known alphabetic writing has been found etched onto finger-length clay cylinders unearthed from a tomb in Syria.