The first true alphabet was an invention of the Greek world, revolutionizing writing, literacy, and shaping foundations of ...

Traditionally, the origin of alphabetic writing is attributed to the Semitic peoples of the Sinai around 1900 BCE. This alphabet, known as “Proto-Sinaitic,” is thought to have been derived ...

The alphabetic writing system was identified on finger-length clay cylinders excavated from a tomb in an ancient Syrian city known as Tell Umm-el Marra. The artifacts came to light during a 16 ...

What appears to be evidence of some of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history is etched onto finger-length, clay cylinders excavated from a tomb in Syria by a team of Johns Hopkins University ...

Researchers may have deciphered the oldest known scrap of alphabetic writing yet discovered, and it may be a nearly 4,500-year-old gift tag. A clay cylinder found in a tomb holding six skeletons ...

However, Schwartz, who shared details about the cylinders at an annual meeting of the American Society of Overseas Research in the fall of 2024, believes that the alphabetic writing is of a ...

The earliest known example of alphabetic writing has been discovered etched onto small clay cylinders in an ancient Syrian tomb, which was excavated by researchers from Maryland’s Johns Hopkins ...

The writing, which is dated to around 2400 BCE, precedes other known alphabetic scripts by roughly 500 years, upending what archaeologists know about where alphabets came from, how they are shared ...

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Now, a shocking finding challenges this assumption, pushing back the age of the first known alphabetic writing by about 500 years. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore ...

However, a former student was willing to weigh in. “The writing on these cylinder seals seems to me to be alphabetic writing, and I don’t really have any doubt about that,” wrote Prof.