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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The writing was etched onto clay cylinders discovered during a dig at an ancient Syrian city ... confirmed the ages of the tombs, the artifacts, and the writing. "Previously, scholars thought ...