The ancient Egyptians invented one of the earliest known writing systems used from around 3000 BC. The symbols they used were called hieroglyphs, which comes from a Greek word meaning ...

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

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

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