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

The researchers methodically compared the designs they found on ancient cylinder seals with known proto-cuneiform signs. The ...

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

AN awe-inspiring discovery of the oldest known alphabet has been found in a tomb by a group of archaeologists. The ancient ...

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

Archaeologists from Johns Hopkins University have unearthed what is believed to be the earliest example of alphabetic writing ...

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

The oldest known alphabetic writing has been found etched onto finger-length clay cylinders unearthed from a tomb in Syria.

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

One of the earliest writing systems in the world may have been influenced by symbols engraved on ancient “cylinder seals.” ...