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

Found etched into clay cylinders in Syria, the strange symbols date to around 2400 B.C.E.—500 years before other known ...

The early writing appears to date to around 2400 B.C.—preceding the previous most bygone examples by roughly 500 years.

Hussein Omar Azouz did not want anybody to get hurt. Following the advice of the manager of the fruit and vegetable shipping ...

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

Israeli occupation forces arrested on Thursday evening a Syrian citizen while herding sheep in the lands of Quneitra ...

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.

The early human discovery dating back to 2400 BC was made by analyzing clay fragments at a 16-year-long archaeological dig in ...

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

Syria state media reports Israeli attacks killed 36 people in Palmyra. At least nine people were killed by Israel in the ...

Pittsburgh Public Schools has had an influx of English Language Learner students. The district faces a shortage of English Language Development staff.

Dutch documentarians Peter Lataster and Petra Lataster-Czisch are veterans on their home turf of the International ...