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

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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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Although far from the oldest writing we have found, these cylinders are 500 years older than any previously known example of alphabetic script, if that is indeed what they carry.

Later acquisitions came increasingly from well-documented archaeological excavations. The civilisation of ancient Egypt arose in the fourth millennium BC and only waned in the first four centuries AD, ...