Our humdrum A-Z goes back further than we think
The well-preserved tomb near Aleppo in Syria contained six skeletons, gold and silver jewellery, cookware, pottery and even a spearhead. But it was the finger-shaped clay cylinders lying nearby that ...
4 Secret Tablets in a Tomb May Be the First Evidence of the World's Oldest Alphabet
Four small, clay tablets, unearthed in 2004, are finally gaining attention as possibly the first evidence of an alphabet, but ...
Ancient Clay Cylinders Reveal What May Be World's Oldest Alphabetic Writing
The early writing appears to date to around 2400 B.C.—preceding the previous most bygone examples by roughly 500 years.
World’s oldest WRITING is found in ancient tomb & experts think it’s a prehistoric label…but what it says is a mystery
AN awe-inspiring discovery of the oldest known alphabet has been found in a tomb by a group of archaeologists. The ancient ...
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Oldest known alphabet unearthed in ancient Syrian city
The writing, which is dated to around 2400 BCE, precedes other known alphabetic scripts by roughly 500 years, upending what archaeologists know about where alphabets came from, how they are shared ...
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Ancient writing — using possibly ‘oldest known alphabet’ — unearthed in Syria. See it
“Alphabets revolutionized writing by making it accessible to people beyond royalty and the socially elite. Alphabetic writing ...