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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 ...
A finger-sized clay cylinder from a tomb in northern Syria appears to be the oldest example of writing using an alphabet ...
The early writing appears to date to around 2400 B.C.—preceding the previous most bygone examples by roughly 500 years.
Although humans had developed writing before alphabets, these early forms of writing were mostly pictorial in nature.
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