The alphabet is the first thing a child needs to learn before anything else. Children need to learn each letter and the ...

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

First discovered in 2004 but confirmed thanks to recent carbon dating, researchers found the world's oldest alphabet in a Syrian tomb.

Cylinders discovered in 2004 are inscribed with the earliest known examples of letters, say archaeologists. Clay cylinders ...

Small clay cylinders from an ancient Syrian tomb have letters etched into them. The 2400-year-old tablets are the oldest ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University discovered evidence of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history. The writing ...

“It’s an alphabet. It’s easy-peasy. I’m used to much tougher things.” “The morphology of the letters on the cylinder seals ...

Four small, clay tablets, unearthed in 2004, are finally gaining attention as possibly the first evidence of an alphabet, but ...

Researchers have discovered evidence of what they say is the world’s oldest alphabet, believed to have existed in the ...

What appears to be evidence of some of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history is etched onto finger-length, clay ...

New evidence of the world's oldest alphabet, carved onto finger-length clay cylinders, outdates other scripts by 500 years.