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 ...

An archaeological breakthrough to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR) reveals that the oldest known examples of alphabetic writing have been ...

At Tell Umm-el Marra, finger-length clay cylinders, unearthed by Johns Hopkins University archaeologists, show engraved symbols—possibly the earliest alphabetic writing—found at this ancient ...