BCE clay cylinders with oldest known alphabetic writing were uncovered in Syria, challenging the origins of the alphabet.

Four clay cylinders inscribed with what might be the oldest known evidence of alphabetic writing are 500 years older than other early alphabets, according to new research.

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This discovery, dated to around 2400 BCE, predates previously known alphabetic scripts by approximately 500 years, ...

The findings suggest that the development of writing was more geographically diverse and occurred earlier than previously ...

Archaeological discoveries indicate that alphabetic writing dates back 500 years earlier than previously believed. What ...

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