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

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

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Credit: Glenn Schwartz, Johns Hopkins University A team of Johns Hopkins University researchers has uncovered evidence of ...

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 ...