Egyptian hieroglyphics were used 3,250 years before our era, but there is an even older precursor: the cuneiform writing of ...

A Johns Hopkins University archeologist and his team are credited with discovering “humanity’s earliest-known alphabetic ...

A recent archaeological discovery could overturn our understanding of the origins of alphabetic writing. Clay cylinders, dated to 2400 BCE, bear inscriptions that might represent the earliest traces ...

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 ...

Dating back to approximately 2400 BCE, this discovery predates previously identified alphabetic scripts by about 500 years, according to Professor Glenn Schwartz of Johns Hopkins University.

Arab affairs reporter Gianluca Pacchiani on hostage talks and Syria's Christian minority; archaeology reporter Gavriel Fiske ...

Did you know that there is a military alphabet? This is a special phonetic alphabet that is used by the military to communicate over radios and other devices. The military alphabet was created in ...

Modern discoveries have definitely backed up this claim. The Phoenician alphabet evolved from a script known by scholars as the Proto-Sinaitic Script. This was a form of writing that has been found on ...

“Alphabets revolutionized writing by making it accessible to people beyond royalty and the socially elite. Alphabetic writing changed the way people lived, how they thought, how they ...

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