Discover Syria's 2400 BCE alphabet, the oldest known alphabetic writing, reshaping the history of the alphabet's origins.
Small clay cylinders from an ancient Syrian tomb have letters etched into them. The 2400-year-old tablets are the oldest ...
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Archaeologists Say These Mysterious Markings Could Be the World's Oldest Known Alphabetic WritingA few decades ago, researchers discovered four small clay cylinders marked with strange symbols at an ancient tomb in Syria.
Long before the “A, B, C Song” — built upon the Latin alphabet — and the alphas, betas and gammas of Ancient Greek, cultures around the world were communicating with one another. The Sumerians of ...
New evidence of the world's oldest alphabet, carved onto finger-length clay cylinders, outdates other scripts by 500 years.
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