World's Oldest Alphabet Found on an Ancient Clay Gift Tag
A finger-sized clay cylinder from a tomb in northern Syria appears to be the oldest example of writing using an alphabet rather than hieroglyphs or cuneiform
Ancient writing — using possibly ‘oldest known alphabet’ — unearthed in Syria. See it
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 Mesopotamia built a language from cuneiforms,
Archaeologists unearth oldest alphabet from ancient tomb
The oldest known alphabetic writing has been found etched onto finger-length clay cylinders unearthed from a tomb in Syria. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University in the US dated the writing to around 2400BC, preceding other known alphabetic scripts by about 500 years.
Ancient tomb reveals oldest alphabetic writing ever recorded in rare archaeology discovery
Archaeologists have uncovered the oldest alphabetic writing ever recorded from a tomb in Syria The horse gave him all the signals. But he didn’t listen. If the horses with the yellow hooves come on, it means bad
Oldest known alphabet unearthed in ancient Syrian city
Researchers have discovered evidence of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history. The writing was etched onto clay cylinders discovered during a dig at an ancient Syrian city.
Oldest known alphabetic writing found on clay cylinders in Syria
The findings suggest that the development of writing was more geographically diverse and occurred earlier than previously believed.
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The Whistled Language of Greece and the Threat of Its Extinction
Residents of the mountainous village of Antia in Evia, Greece "speak" a unique whistle language called Sfyria.
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World's oldest ALPHABET is discovered: Ancient 4,400-year-old text is found on clay cylinders from a tomb in Syria - and it upends everything we thought we knew about the ...
For decades, it's been a common belief that the Ancient Egyptians were responsible ... eventually developing into the Greek and Latin alphabets. Prior to any alphabet, the earlier systems ...