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Four small, clay tablets, unearthed in 2004, are finally gaining attention as possibly the first evidence of an alphabet, but ...

First discovered in 2004 but confirmed thanks to recent carbon dating, researchers found the world's oldest alphabet in a Syrian tomb.

Discover Syria's 2400 BCE alphabet, the oldest known alphabetic writing, reshaping the history of the alphabet's origins.

Small clay cylinders from an ancient Syrian tomb have letters etched into them. The 2400-year-old tablets are the oldest ...

Cylinders discovered in 2004 are inscribed with the earliest known examples of letters, say archaeologists. Clay cylinders ...

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and the story goes that the earliest alphabet—known as Proto-Sinaitic script—developed in the Sinai peninsula, which transformed some Egyptian hieroglyphics into a phonetic script. However ...

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